HELLESPONt, narrow strait between Europe and Asia Minor, named for
Helle

Hengist, Saxon invader of Britain, 449 ad

HEPHAESTOS, See Vulcan

Hera, called Juno by the Romans, a daughter of Cronos (Saturn) and Rhea, and sister and wife of Jupiter, See Juno

Hercules, athletic hero, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, achieved twelve vast labors and many famous deeds

Hereward the wake, hero of the Saxons

Hermes (Mercury), messenger of the gods, deity of commerce, science, eloquence, trickery, theft, and skill generally

HERMIONE, daughter of Menelaus and Helen

HERMOD, the nimble, son of Odin

Hero, a priestess of Venus, beloved of Leander

Herodotus, Greek historian

Hesiod, Greek poet

Hesperia, ancient name for Italy

Hesperides (See Apples of the Hesperides)

Hesperus, the evening star (also called Day Star)

Hestia, cilled Vesta by the Romans, the goddess of the hearth

Hildebrand, German magician and champion

Hindu triad, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva

Hippocrene (See Helicon)

Hippodamia, wife of Pirithous, at whose wedding the Centaurs offered violence to the bride, causing a great battle

Hippogriff, winged horse, with eagle’s head and claws

Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons

Hippolytus, son of Thesus

Hippomenes, who won Atalanta in foot race, beguiling her with golden apples thrown for her to

Histion, son of Japhet

HODUR, blind man, who, fooled by

Loki, threw a mistletoe twig at Baldur, killing him

Hoel, king of Brittany

Homer, the blind poet of Greece, about 850 B C

Hope (See Pandora)

Horae See hours

Horsa, with Hengist, invader of Britain

Horus, Egyptian god of the sun

HOUDAIN, Tristram’s dog

HRINGHAM, Baldur’s ship

Hrothgar, king of Denmark

Hugi, who beat Thialfi in foot races

HUGIN, one of Odin’s two ravens

Hunding, husband of Sieglinda

Huon, son of Duke Sevinus

Hyacinthus, a youth beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by him, changed in death to the flower, hyacinth

Hyades, Nysaean nymphs, nurses of infant Bacchus, rewarded by being placed as cluster of stars in the heavens

HYALE, a nymph of Diana

Hydra, nine headed monster slain by Hercules

Hygeia, goddess of health, daughter of Aesculapius

Hylas, a youth detained by nymphs of spring where he sought water