VOLSUNG, A SAGA, an Icelandic poem, giving about the same legends as the Nibelungen Lied VORTIGERN, usurping King of Britain, defeated by Pendragon 390, 397 VULCAN (Greek, Haephestus), god of fire and metal working, with forges under Aetna, husband of Venus VYA'SA, Hindu sage W WAIN, the, constellation WELLGUNDA, one of the Rhine-daughters. WELSH LANGUAGE WESTERN OCEAN WINDS, THE WINTER WODEN, chief god in the Norse mythology, Anglo Saxon for Odin. WOGLINDA, one of the Rhine-daughters. WOMAN, creation of. WOODEN HORSE, the, filled with armed men, but left outside of Troy as a pretended offering to Minerva when the Greeks feigned to sail away, accepted by the Trojans (See Sinon, and Laocoon), brought into the city, and at night emptied of the hidden Greek soldiers, who destroyed the town. WOOD NYMPHS WOTAN, Old High German form of Odin. X XANTHUS, river of Asia Minor. Y YAMA, Hindu god of the Infernal Regions. YEAR, THE YGDRASIL, great ash-tree, supposed by Norse mythology to support the universe. YMIR, giant, slain by Odin. YNYWL, Earl, host of Geraint, father of Enid. YORK, Britain. YSERONE, niece of Arthur, mother of Caradoc. YSPA DA DEN PEN'KAWR, father of Olwen. Z ZENDAVESTA, Persian sacred Scriptures. ZEPHYRUS, god of the South wind. ZERBINO, a knight, son of the king of Scotland. ZETES, winged warrior, companion of Theseus. ZETHUS, son of Jupiter and Antiope, brother of Amphion. See Dirce. ZEUS, See JUPITER. ZOROASTER, founder of the Persian religion, which was dominant in Western Asia from about 550 BC to about 650 AD, and is still held by many thousands in Persia and in India End of Project Gutenberg's Legends of Charlemagne, by Thomas Bulfinch