_Hoyden_ (_Miss_), daughter of Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, a green, ill-educated, country girl, living near Scarborough. She is promised in marriage to Lord Foppington, but as his lordship is not personally known, either by the knight or his daughter, Tom Fashion, the nobleman’s younger brother, passes himself off as Lord Foppington, is admitted into the family, and marries the heiress.—Sheridan, _A Trip to Scarborough_ (1777). ⁂ Sheridan’s comedy is _The Relapse_ of Vanbrugh (1697), abridged, recast, and somewhat modernized. =Hrasvelg=, the giant who keeps watch on the North side of the root of the Tree of the World, to devour the dead. His shape is that of an eagle. Winds and storms are caused by the movement of his wings.—_Scandinavian Mythology._ =Hrimfax´i=, the horse of Night, from whose bit fall the rime-drops that every morning bedew the earth.—_Scandinavian Mythology._ =Hrothgar=, king of Denmark, whom Beowulf delivered from the monster Grendel. Hrothgar built Heorot, a magnificent palace, and here he distributed rings (treasure), and held his feasts; but the monster, Grendel, envious of his happiness, stole into the hall after a feast, and put thirty of the thanes to death in their sleep. The same ravages were repeated night after night, till Beowulf, at the head of a mixed band of soldiers, went against him and slew him.—_Beowulf_ (an Anglo-Saxon epic poem, sixth century). =Hry´mer=, pilot of the ship _Nagelfar_ (made of the “nails of the dead”).—_Scandinavian Mythology._ =Hubba and Ingwar=, two Danish chiefs, who, in 870, conquered East Anglia and wintered at Thetford, in Norfolk. King Edmund fought against them, but was beaten and taken prisoner. The Danish chiefs offered him his life and kingdom if he would renounce Christianity and pay them tribute; but as he refused to do so, they tied him to a tree, shot at him with arrows, and then cut off his head. Edmund was therefore called “St. Edmund.” Alu´red fought seven battles with Hubba, and slew him at Abington, in Berkshire. Alured ... In seven brave foughten fields their champion Hubba chased, And slew him in the end at Abington [_sic_]. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xii. (1613).