=Goer´vyl=, sister of Prince Madoc, and daughter of Owen, late king of North Wales. She accompanied her brother to America, and formed one of the colony of Caer-madoc, south of the Missouri (twelfth century).—Southey, _Madoc_ (1805). =Goetz von Berlichingen=, or _Gottfried of the Iron Hand_, a famous German burgrave, who lost his right hand at the siege of Landshut. The iron hand which replaced the one he had lost is still shown at Jaxthausen, the place of his birth. Gottfried took a prominent part in the wars of independence against the electors of Brandenberg and Bavaria, in the sixteenth century (1480-1562). ⁂ Goethe has made this the title and subject of an historical drama. =Goffe= (_Captain_), captain of the pirate vessel.—Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III.). =Gog=, according to _Ezek._ xxxviii., xxxix., was “prince of Magog”, (a country or people). Calmet says Camby´sês, king of Persia, is meant; but others think Antiochus Epiph´anês is alluded to. _Gog_, in _Rev._ xx. 7-9, means Antichrist. Gog and Magog, in conjunction, mean all princes of the earth who are enemies of the Christian Church. ⁂ Sale says Gog is a Turkish tribe.—_Al Korân_, xviii. note. =Gog and Magog.= Prester John in his letter to Manuel Comnēnus, emperor of Constantinople, speaks of Gog and Magog as two separate nations tributary to him. These, with thirteen others, he says, are now shut up behind inaccessible mountains, but at the end of the world they will be let loose, and overrun the whole earth.—Albericus Trium Fontium, _Chronicles_ (1242). Sale tells us that Gog and Magog are called by the Arabs “Yajui” and “Ma-jûj,” which are two nations or tribes descended from Japhet, son of Noah. Gog, according to some authorities, is a Turkish tribe; and Magog is the tribe called “Gilân” by Ptolemy, and “Geli” or “Gelæ” by Strabo.—_Al Korân_, xviii. note. Respecting the re-appearance of Gog and Magog, the _Korân_ says: “They [_the dead_] shall not return ... till Gog and Magog have a passage opened for them, and they [_the dead_] shall hasten from every high hill,” _i.e._ the resurrection (ch. xxi.). _Gog and Magog._ The two statues of Guildhall so called are in reality the statues of Gogmagog or Goëmagot and Corineus, referred to in the next article. (See also CORINEUS.) The Albion giant is known by his pole-axe and spiked ball. Two statues so called stood on the same spot in the reign of Henry V.; but those now seen were made by Richard Saunders, in 1708, and are fourteen feet in height. In Hone’s time, children and country visitors were told that every day, when the giants heard the clock strike twelve, they came down to dinner.—_Old and New London_, i. 387. Another tale was that they then fell foul of each other in angry combat.