The damsel of Brittany. Eleanora, daughter of Geoffrey, second son of Henry II., King of England and Duke of Brittany. At the death of Prince Arthur she was the real heir to the crown, but…
A mythical king of England, and father of King Lear. He built the city of Bath, and dedicated the medicinal springs to Minerva. Bladud studied magic, and, attempting to fly, fell into the…
(Geoffrey). The nom de plume under which Washington Irving published The Sketch-Book. (1820.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Creaking Doors hang the…
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or Locrine (2 syl.). Father of Sabrina, and eldest son of the mythical Brutus, King of ancient Britain. On the death of his father he became king of Loegria (q.v.). (Geoffrey: Brit. Hist…
Geoffrey of Monmouth says that Cundah' and Morgan, the sons of Gonorill and Regan, usurped the crown at the death of Cordeilla. The former resolved to reign alone, chased Morgan into Wales…
The river Humber. For by the river that whylome was hight The ancien Abus ... [was from] Their chieftain, Humber, named aright. And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says: For my princely…
Bearded Master (Magister barbatus). So Persius styled Socrates, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C.468-399.) Pogonatus (Bearded). Constantine IV., Emperor of…
(See Chiabreresco.) Father of English poetry. Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400); so called by Dryden. Spenser calls him “the pure well of English undefiled.” He was not the first English poet…
The code of Dunvallo Mulmutius, sixteenth King of the Britons (about B.C. 400). This code was translated by Gildas from British into Latin, and by Alfred into Anglo-Saxon. These laws…
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