Donald of the smithy, the “son of the hammer”
  Filled the banks of Lochawe with mourning and
  clamor.

  Quoted by Sir Walter Scott in Tales of
  a Grandfather, i. 39.

DONAR, same as THOR, the god of thunder among the ancient Teutons.

DONATELLO, a young Italian whose marvellous resemblance to the Marble Faun of Praxiteles is the subject of jesting remark to three American friends.

“So full of animal life as he was, so joyous in his deportment, so physically well-developed; he made no impression of incompleteness, of maimed or stinted, nature.”  Yet his friends “habitually allowed for him, exacting no strict obedience to conventional rules, and hardly noticing his eccentricities enough to pardon them.”

He loves Miriam, an American student, and resents the persecution of her by a mysterious man—­a nominal “model” who thrusts his presence upon her at all inconvenient times.  One night as he comes between Donatello and Miriam as they lean on the parapet crowning the Tarpeian Rock, the Italian throws him over the precipice and kills him.  From that moment, although he is not accused of the deed, the joyous faun becomes the haunted man.

“Nothing will ever comfort me!” he says moodily to Miriam, when she would extenuate his crime.  “I have a great weight here!” lifting her hand to his breast.  Wild creatures, once his loved companions, shun him as he, in turn, shuns the face of man.  He disappears from the story, hand-in-hand with Miriam, bound, it would seem, upon a penitential pilgrimage, or to begin a new life in another hemisphere.—­Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860).

DONATION OF PEPIN.  When Pepin conquered Ataulf (Adolphus), the exarchate of Ravenna fell into his hands.  Pepin gave the pope both the ex-archate and the republic of Rome; and this munificent gift is the world-famous “Donation of Pepin,” on which rested the whole fabric of the temporal power of the popes (A.D. 755).  Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, dispossessed the pope of his temporal sovereignty, and added the papal states to the united kingdom of Italy, over which he reigned (1870).

DONDASCH’, an Oriental giant, contemporary with Seth, to whose service he was attached.  He needed no weapons, because he could destroy anything by his muscular force.

DON’EGILD (3 syl.), the wicked mother of Alia, king of Northumberland.  Hating Custance because she was a Christian, Donegild set her adrift with her infant son.  When Alia returned from Scotland, and discovered this act of cruelty, he put his mother to death; then going to Rome on a pilgrimage, met his wife and child, who had been brought there a little time previously.—­Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("The Man of Law’s Tale,” 1388).

DON’ET, the first grammar put into the hands of scholars.  It was that of Dona’tus the grammarian, who taught in Rome in the fourth century, and was the preceptor of St. Jerome.  When “Graunde Amour” was sent to study under Lady Gramer, she taught him, as he says: