RUNIC CHARACTERS, or runes, alphabetic signs used by early Teutonic peoples, written or graved on metal or stone RUTULIANS, an ancient people in Italy, subdued at an early period by the Romans RYENCE, king in Ireland S SABRA, maiden for whom Severn River was named, daughter of Locrine and Estrildis thrown into river Severn by Locrine's wife, transformed to a river nymph, poetically named Sabrina SACRIPANT, king of Circassia SAFFIRE, Sir, knight of Arthur SAGAS, Norse tales of heroism, composed by the Skalds SAGRAMOUR, knight of Arthur St. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, precipitous pointed rock hill on the coast of Brittany, opposite Cornwall SAKYASINHA, the Lion, epithet applied to Buddha SALAMANDER, a lizard like animal, fabled to be able to live in fire SALAMIS, Grecian city SALMONEUS, son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother of Sisyphus SALOMON, king of Brittany, at Charlemagne's court SAMHIN, or "fire of peace," a Druidical festival SAMIAN SAGE (Pythagoras) SAMOS, island in the Aegean Sea SAMOTHRACIAN GODS, a group of agricultural divinities, worshipped in Samothrace SAMSON, Hebrew hero, thought by some to be original of Hercules SAN GREAL (See Graal, the Holy) SAPPHO, Greek poetess, who leaped into the sea from promontory of Leucadia in disappointed love for Phaon SARACENS, followers of Mahomet SARPEDON, son of Jupiter and Europa, killed by Patroclus SATURN (Cronos) SATURNALIA, a annual festival held by Romans in honor of Saturn SATURNIA, an ancient name of Italy SATYRS, male divinities of the forest, half man, half goat SCALIGER, famous German scholar of 16th century SCANDINAVIA, mythology of, giving account of Northern gods, heroes, etc SCHERIA, mythical island, abode of the Phaeacians SCHRIMNIR, the boar, cooked nightly for the heroes of Valhalla becoming whole every morning SCIO, one of the island cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace SCOPAS, King of Thessaly SCORPION, constellation SCYLLA, sea nymph beloved by Glaucus, but changed by jealous Circe to a monster and finally to a dangerous rock on the Sicilian coast, facing the whirlpool Charybdis, many mariners being wrecked between the two, also, daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who loved Minos, besieging her father's city, but he disliked her disloyalty and drowned her, also, a fair virgin of Sicily, friend of sea nymph Galatea SCYROS, where Theseus was slain SCYTHIA, country lying north of Euxine Sea SEMELE, daughter of Cadmus and, by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus SEMIRAMIS, with Ninus the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire of Nineveh SENAPUS, King of Abyssinia, who entertained Astolpho SERAPIS, or Hermes, Egyptian divinity of Tartarus and of medicine SERFS, slaves of the land SERIPHUS, island in the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades SERPENT (Northern constellation) SESTOS, dwelling of Hero (which See also Leander) "SEVEN AGAINST THEBES," famous Greek expedition SEVERN RIVER, in England SEVINUS, Duke of Guienne SHALOTT, THE LADY OF