=Huon=, a serf, secretary and tutor of the Countess Catherine, with whom he falls in love. He reads with music in his voice, talks enchantingly, writes admirably, translates “dark languages,” is “wise in rare philosophy,” is master of the hautboy, lute, and viol, “proper in trunk and limb and feature;” but the proud countess, though she loves him, revolts from the idea of marrying a serf. At length it comes to the ears of the duke that his daughter loves Huon, and the duke commands him, on pain of death, to marry Catherine, a freed serf. He refuses until the countess interferes; he then marries and rushes to the wars. Here he greatly distinguishes himself, and is created a prince, when he learns that the Catherine he has wed is not Catherine, the freed serf, but Catherine the countess.—S. Knowles, _Love_ (1840.) =Huon de Bordeaux= (_Sir_), who married Esclairmond, and, when Oberon went to paradise, succeeded him as “king of all Faëry.” In the second part, Huon visits the terrestrial paradise, and encounters Cain, the first murderer, in performance of his penance.—_Huon de Bordeaux_. ⁂ An abstract of this romance is in Dunlop’s _History of Fiction_. See also Keightley’s _Fairy Mythology_. It is also the subject of Wieland’s _Oberon_, which has been translated by Sotheby. =Hur al Oyûn=, the black-eyed daughters of paradise, created of pure musk. They are free from all bodily weakness, and are ever young. Every believer will have seventy-two of these girls as his household companions in paradise, and those who desire children will see them grow to maturity in an hour.—_Al Korân_, Sale’s notes. =Hurgonel= (_Count_), the betrothed of Orna, sister of Duke Gondibert.—Sir Wm. Davenant, _Gondibert_, iii. (died 1668). =Hurry=, servant of Oldworth, of Oldworth Oaks. He is always out of breath, wholly unable to keep quiet or stand still, and proves the truth of the proverb, “The more haste the worse speed.” He fancies everything must go wrong if he is not bustling about, and he is a constant fidget.—J. Burgoyne, _The Maid of the Oaks_. _Hurry_ (_Harry_), _alias_ Hurry Skurry. Gigantic backwoodsman and hunter, friend of _Deerslayer_, and enamoured of Judith Hutter.—James Fenimore Cooper, _The Deerslayer_. =Hurtali=, a giant who reigned in the time of the Flood. The Massorets affirm that Hurtali, being too big to get into the ark, sat astride upon it, as children stride a wooden horse—Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, ii. 1. (According to Menage, the rabbins say that it was Og, not Hurtali, who thus outrode the Flood.—See Le Pelletier, chap. XXV. of his _Noah’s Ark_.)