THRYM, giant, who buried Thor’s hammer
Thucydides, Greek historian
Tiber, river flowing through Rome
Tiber, father, god of the river
Tigris, river
Tintadel, castle of, residence of King Mark of Cornwall
Tiresias, a Greek soothsayer
Tisiphone, one of the Furies
Titans, the sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven)
and Gaea
(Earth), enemies of the gods and overcome by them
Tithonus, Trojan prince
TITYUS, giant in Tartarus
Tmolus, a mountain god
Tortoise, second avatar of Vishnu
Tours, battle of (See Abdalrahman and Charles Martel)
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