=Glenalvon=, heir of Lord Randolph. When young Norval, the son of Lady Randolph, makes his unexpected appearance, Glenalvon sees in him a rival, whom he hates. He pretends to Lord Randolph that the young man is a suitor of Lady Randolph’s, and, having excited the passion of jealousy, contrives to bring his lordship to a place where he witnesses their endearments. A fight ensues, in which Norval slays Glenalvon, but is himself slain by Lord Randolph, who then discovers too late that the supposed suitor was his wife’s son.—Home, _Douglas_ (1757). =Glencoe= (2 _syl._), the scene of the massacre of M’Ian and thirty-eight of his glenmen, in 1692. All Jacobites were commanded to submit to William III. by the end of December, 1691. M’Ian was detained by a heavy fall of snow, and Sir John Dalrymple, the master of Stair, sent Captain Campbell to make an example of “the rebel.” ⁂ Talfourd has a drama entitled _Glencoe, or the Fall of the M’Donalds_. =Glendale= (_Sir Richard_), a papist conspirator with Redgauntlet.—Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.). =Glendin´ning= (_Elspeth_) or ELSPETH BRYDONE (2 _syl._), widow of Simon Glendinning, of the Tower of Glendearg. _Halbert_ and _Edward Glendinning_, sons of Elspeth Glendinning.—Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth). _Glendinning (Sir Halbert)_, the knight of Avenel, husband of Lady Mary of Avenel (2 _syl._).—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth). =Glendoveer´=, plu. _Glendoveers_, the most beautiful of the good spirits of Hindû mythology. ... the glendoveers. The loveliest of all of heavenly birth. Southey, _Curse of Kehama_, vi, 2 (1809.) =Glendow´er= (_Owen_), a Welsh nobleman, descended from Llewellyn (last of the Welsh kings). Sir Edmund Mortimer married one of his daughters. Shakespeare makes him a wizard, but very highly accomplished.—Shakespeare, 1 _Henry IV_. (1597). =Glengar´ry.= So M’Donald of Glengarry (who gave in his adhesion to William III.) is generally called. =Glenpro´sing= (_The old lady_), a neighbor of old Jasper Yellowley.—Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III.). =Glenthorn= (_Lord_), the hero of Miss Edgeworth’s novel called _Ennui_. Spoiled by indolence and bad education, he succeeds, by a course of self-discipline, in curing his mental and moral faults, and in becoming a useful member of society (1809). The history of Lord Glenthorn affords a striking picture of _ennui_, and contains some excellent delineations of character.—Chambers, _English Literature_, ii. 569. =Glenvar´loch= (_Lord_), or Nigel Olifaunt, the hero of Scott’s novel called _The Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.). =Glinter=, the palace of Foresti “the peace-maker,” son of Balder. It was raised on pillars of gold, and had a silver roof. =Gloria´na=, “the greatest glorious queen of Faëry-land.”