Hakem the khalif vanished erst, In what seemed death to uninstructed eyes, On red Mokattam’s verge. Robert Browning, _The Return of the Druses_, i. =Hakim= _(Adonbec el_), Saladin in the disguise of a physician. He visited Richard Cœur de Lion in sickness; gave him a medicine in which the “talisman” had been dipped, and the sick king recovered from his fever.—Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Halcro= (_Claud_), the old bard of Magnus Troil, the udaller of Zetland.—Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III.). ⁂ A udallar is one who holds his land by allodial tenure. =Halden or Halfdene= (_2 syl._), a Danish king, who with Basrig or Bagsecg, another Scandinavian king, made (in 871) a descent upon Wessex, and in that one year nine pitched battles were fought with the islanders. The first was Englefield, in Berkshire, in which the Danes were beaten; the second was Reading, in which the Danes were victorious; the third was the famous battle of Æscesdun or Ashdune, in which the Danes were defeated with great loss, and King Bagsecg was slain. In 909, Halfdene was slain in the battle of Wodnesfield (Staffordshire). Reading ye regained.... Where Basrig ye outbraved, and Halden sword to sword. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xii. (1613). =Hal´dimund= (_Sir Ewes_), a friend of Lord Dalgarno.—Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.). Hales (_John_), called “The Ever-Memorable” (1584-1656). The works of John Hales were published after his death, in 1659, under the title of _The Golden Remains of the Ever-Memorable Mr. John Hales of Eton College_ (three vols.). =Halifax= (_John_), noble character, rising from poverty to affluence and honor by his own exertions, and winning for himself the name written by his mother in his Bible, “_John Halifax, Gentleman._”—Dinah Maria Muloch, Mrs. Craik. =Halkit= (_Mr._), a young lawyer in the introduction of Sir W. Scott’s _Heart of Midlothian_ (1818). =Hall= (_Sir Christopher_), an officer in the army of Montrose.—Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.). =Hall= (_Ruth_), vivacious woman, who is happily married, then widowed, reduced to poverty, and wins fortune and fame by her pen. Supposed to be the author’s own life under a thin veil of fiction.—Sarah Payson Willis (Fanny Fern), _Ruth Hall_ (184-).