f of Havelok, 75;
Havelok sails from, with Grim, 80;
Havelok's dream concerning, 86;
Havelok's return to, and recognition as King of, 87-92
DIARMUIT. Irish hero, 156
DIOCLETIAN. Emperor; Constantine evades jealousy of, 63
DODDERER. Horse offered as wergild by Thorbiorn to Howard, 107
DOVER. Princess Goldborough imprisoned in castle of, 81;
Hereward sails from, to Whitby, 339
DUBLIN. Demons arrive at village near, 168
DUNDRUM. Bricriu receives King Conor and court at, 188
DUNSTAN. Monk; his saintly reputation, 335
DURENDALA. Roland's famous sword, 136;
Roland tries in vain to break, 152
E
ECGTHEOW (eg'theow). Father of Beowulf, 10;
shielded by Hrothgar against Wilfings, 11
EDINBURGH. Black Colin at, _en route_ to Holy Land, 253
EDWARD.
1. The First: reference to war between England and Scotland during
reign of, 249;
2. The Second: reference, _ibid._, 249.
3. The Confessor: division of England under, 335;
Hereward at court of, 337, 338;
banishes Hereward, 338, 339;
Alftruda, ward of, 339
EGYPT. Constantine's valour in wars in, 64;
philosophers from, with remedies for Constantine's leprosy, 65
ELECTRA. Reference to Orestes and, 95
ELENA. Same as Elene and Helena, 63
"ELENE" (el[=a]'n[)e]). Cynewulf's poem of, on the subject of
Constantine's conversion, 42;
summoned from Britain by Constantine, is baptized, and seeks the
sacred Cross, 54-62.
Same as Helena (Elena), 63
ELFLEDA THE FAIR. Daughter of King Birkabeyn, 74;
slain by Godard, 76
ELY. Hereward's defence of, 334
EMER. Daughter of Forgall the Wily; wooed and wedded by Cuchulain,
186;
flattered by Bricriu, 189;
flattered by Queen Meave, 195;
adjudged by Uath to have first place among all the women of Ulster,
203
ENGELIER THE GASCON. Mortally wounded, 143
ENGLAND. Mediaeval, and Constantine the Great, 42;
influence on language by Danish occupation, 73;
Athelstan, King of, 73;
Athelwold, King of, 80;
Grim sails from Denmark to, 80;
arrives at, in Humber (Grimsby), 81;
Havelok's dream concerning, 86;
Fergus journeys to, 165;
the outlaw of mediaeval, 225;
King of, pardons outlaws, William of Cloudeslee, &c., 243;
war between Scotland and, 249;
government of, during twelfth, thirteenth, and fourtee
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