TOXEUS, brother of Melauger’s mother, who snatched from Atalanta her hunting trophy, and was slain by Melauger, who had awarded it to her
Triad, the Hindu
Triads, Welsh poems
Trimurti, Hindu Triad
TRIPTOL’EMUS, son of Celeus , and who, made
great by
Ceres, founded her worship in Eleusis
Tristram, one of Arthur’s knights, husband
of Isoude of the White
Hands, lover of Isoude the Fair,
Triton, a demi god of the sea, son of Poseidon
(Neptune) and
Amphitrite
TROEZEN, Greek city of Argolis
TROJAN WAR
Trojanova, New Troy, City founded in Britain
(See Brutus, and
Lud)
Trophonius, oracle of, in Boeotia
Troubadours, poets and minstrels of Provence, in Southern France
TROUVERS’, poets and minstrels of Northern France
Troy, city in Asia Minor, ruled by King Priam, whose son, Paris, stole away Helen, wife of Menelaus the Greek, resulting in the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy
Troy, fall of
Turnus, chief of the Rutulianes in Italy, unsuccessful
rival of
Aeneas for Lavinia
Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims
Turquine, Sir, a great knight, foe of Arthur,
slain by Sir
Launcelot
Typhon, one of the giants who attacked the gods, were defeated, and imprisoned under Mt. Aetna
Tyr, Norse god of battles
Tyre, Phoenician city governed by Dido
TYRIANS
TYRRHEUS, herdsman of King Turnus in Italy, the slaying of whose daughter’s stag aroused war upon Aeneas and his companions
U
UBERTO, son of Galafron
Ulysses (Greek, Odysseus), hero of the Odyssey
Unicorn, fabled animal with a single horn
Urania, one of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne
Urdur, one of the Norns or Fates of Scandinavia,
representing the
Past
Usk, British river
Utgard, abode of the giant Utgard Loki
Utgard LO’KI, King of the Giants (See Skrymir)
Uther (Uther Pendragon), king of Britain and father of Arthur,
Uwaine, knight of Arthur’s court
V
VAISSYAS, Hindu caste of agriculturists and traders
Valhalla, hall of Odin, heavenly residence of slain heroes
Valkyrie, armed and mounted warlike virgins, daughters of the gods (Norse), Odin’s messengers, who select slain heroes for Valhalla and serve them at their feasts
Ve, brother of Odin
VEDAS, Hindu sacred Scriptures