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GUINEVERE. King Arthur's Queen; mentioned, 67; comforted by St Keenan after Arthur's death, 344 GUINGAMP. A town in Brittany, 229 GWEN. Mother of St Winwaloe, 370 GWENALOE ('He that is white'). The Breton name for St Winwaloe, 370 GWENN-ESTRAD. A place in Wales; battle of, 22 GWENNOLAIK. A maiden of Treguier; in the story of the Foster-brother, 167-172 GWENNOLE. A holy man; in the legend of the city of Ys, 185, 186 GWEZKLEN. The Breton name for Du Guesclin, 32 _See_ Du Guesclin GWINDELUC. A monk, a disciple of St Convoyon, 335 GWYDDNO. Twelfth-century Welsh bard; relates the story of the submerged city, 188 H HAINAULT. A Belgian province; mentioned, 328 HARP, THE. Not now popular in Brittany, but in ancient times one of the national instruments, 228-229 HATCHET OF BRITTANY, THE. An appellation of Morvan, 221 HAUTE-BECHEREL. A town in Brittany; pagan temple at, 342 HEAD-DRESS. Of the women of the Escoublac district, 374; of the women of Ouessant, 374; of the women of Villecheret, 375; of the men of Brittany, does not vary much, 375; headgear of the men of Plougastel, 375; of the women of Muzillac, 376; of the women of Pont l'Abbe and the Bay of Audierne, 376; of the women of Morlaix, 376 _See also_ COIFFES HEAVEN. An old Breton conception of, 388, 390-391 HELENA, LADY. Niece of Duke Hoel I of Brittany; carried off by the giant of Mont-Saint-Michel, 275, 276 HELL. In the story of the Bride of Satan, 144; an old Breton conception of, 388-389 HELLEAN, WOOD OF. A former part of the forest of Broceliande, 221, 224 HELOISE. An abbess, beloved of Abelard; the story of Abelard and, 248-253; in a Breton ballad represented as a sorceress, 250-253 HENAN. Manor of, in Brittany, 364 HENDERSON, GEORGE. Cited, 52 HENNEBONT. A Breton chateau, 206 HENRY II. King of England, 30; identified as the king to whom Marie of France dedicated her _Lais_, 284 HENRY III. King of England; mentioned, 284 HENRY IV. King of France; and Fontenelle, 231-232; mentioned, 204 HENWG. A Welsh bard; said to be the father of Taliesin, 21 HERSART DE LA VILLEMARQUE, VICOMTE. Writer on Breton legendary lore; his poem on Nomenoe, 23; his ballad of Alain Barbe-torte, 25-27; and
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