Hero-Myths & Legends of the British RaceEbbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)
General
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)
Heroes; Romances, English
RYMENHILD. Princess, daughter of King Ailmar;
loves Horn, 292;
Athulf personates Horn before, 293;
welcomes Horn in her bower and declares her love, 294;
wishes Horn good success as knight, 298;
gives token to Horn, 298;
spied on by Fikenhild, 299, 300;
wooed by King Modi, 303;
writes to Horn through Athulf, 303;
Horn at wedding-feast of, 305;
Horn's stratagem to test her love, 306, 307;
her knight and lover, Horn, restored, 307;
wedded to Horn, 308;
left to her father's care, 309;
demanded in marriage by traitor, Fikenhild, 311;
delivered by Horn, 313;
dwells at Suddene as queen, 313
S
SAMSON. Peer of Charlemagne; mortally wounded, 143
SARACEN-S. Host, encamps near Franks, 134;
pursue the Frankish army, 137;
chiefs vow to slay Roland, 137;
defeat of, by Roland's army, 141;
second army attacks Roland, 142;
defeated once more, 143;
third army attacks Roland, 144;
their rule in the Holy Land, 251;
Horn's hatred of, typical of romance of Crusades, 286;
attack and slay King Murry, 287, 288;
Horn's victory over, 298;
Suddene purged of, by Horn, 310
SARAGOSSA. Charlemagne repulsed at, 119;
decided to send Ganelon to, as ambassador, 128;
Charlemagne's threat to take, 132;
Charlemagne receives through Ganelon the keys of, 134;
captured by Charlemagne, 154
"SARN HELEN." Roman roads in Wales connecting Helena's three castles
known as, 49
SAXON ENGLAND. The maintenance of justice in, 314
SAXON-S. Hereward the, 334;
the darling hero of the, 334;
Anglo-, chivalry, Hereward the ideal of, 334, 335;
Hereward the, known as the Champion of Women, 351
SCARLET, WILL. Cousin to and one of Robin Hood's followers, 315
SCOTLAND. Hero-myths of, 248;
national heroes of Lowland, actual, not mythical, 248;
war between England and, 249
SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE. Sir Nigel Campbell one of leaders in cause
of, 249
SCYLD SCEFING (skild ske´f-ing). Founder of Scyldings dynasty, 2;
coming to and passing from Denmark, 2;
Hrothgar, great-grandson of, 2
SEVEN HILLS. Rome, the City of, 43;
Maxen Wledig, emperor, rules Europe from, 43
SHERWOOD, FOREST OF. Headquarters of Robin Hood, 315
SIEGFRIED. Gudrun and, in "Nibelungenlied," 95
SIGMUND. Father of Fitela; glory of, chanted by Danish bard, 18
SIGRID. Thorbiorn's housekeeper, 97;
loved by Olaf, 99;
quits Thorbiorn's service, 103;
disappearance of, 106
SIGT-RYG RANALDSSON. Prince of Waterford; his troth-plight with King
Alef's daughter, 343;
son of King Ranald, 345;
Hereward's mission to, 345-347;
sails for Cornwall to rescue his love, 347;
sends forty Danes to demand fulfilment of troth-plight, 348;
Sigtryg and Danes plan ambush for Haco, 350;
rescues, and marries, Cornish princess, 350, 351
SI´HT-RIC-SON. Same as Anlaf, Abloec, &c., 73
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