_Feargal_, bishop of Saltzburg, an Irishman, was denounced as a heretic for asserting the existence of antipodês (*-784). _Galileo_, the astronomer, was cast into prison for maintaining the “heretical opinion” that the earth moved round the sun (1564-1642). _Giordano Bruno_ was burnt alive for maintaining that matter is the mother of all things (1550-1600). =Her´eward= (_3 syl._), one of the Varangian guard of Alexius Comnēnus, emperor of Greece.—Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus). =Hereward the Wake= (or _Vigilant_), lord of Born, in Lincolnshire. He plundered and burnt the abbey of Peterborough (1070); established his camp in the Isle of Ely, where he was joined by Earl Morcar (1071); he was blockaded for three months by William I., but made his escape with some of his followers. This is the name and subject of one of Kingsley’s novels. =Her´iot= (_Master George_), goldsmith to James I.; guardian of Lady Hermionê.—Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.). =Herman=, a deaf and dumb boy, jailer of the dungeon of the Giant’s Mount. Meeting Ulrica, he tries to seize her, when a flash of lightning strikes the bridge on which he stands, and Herman is thrown into the torrent.—E. Stirling, _The Prisoner of State_ (1847). _Herman (Sir)_, of Goodalicke, one of the perceptors of the Knights Templars.—Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Hermann=, the hero of Goethe’s poem _Hermann and Dorothea_. Goethe tells us that the object of this poem is to “show as in a mirror, the great movements and changes of the world’s stage.” =Hermaph´rodite= (_4 syl._), son of Venus and Mercury. At the age of 15, he bathed in a fountain of Caria, when Sal´macis, the fountain nymph, fell in love with him, and prayed the gods to make the two one body. Her prayers being heard, the two became united into one, but still preserved the double sex. Not that bright spring where fair Hermaphrodite Grew into one with wanton Salmacis ... ... may dare compare with this. Phin. Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, v. (1633). =Hermegild or Hermyngyld=, wife of the lord-constable of Northumberland. She was converted by Constance, but was murdered by a knight whose suit had been rejected by the young guest, in order to bring her into trouble. The villainy being discovered, the knight was executed, and Constance married the king, whose name was Alla. Hermegild, at the bidding of Constance, restored sight to a blind Briton.—Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (“Man of Law’s Tale,” 1388). (The word is spelt “Custaunce” 7 times, “Constance” 15 times, and “Constaunce” 17 times, in the tale.)