e. He "rules his wife" and her household with a masterly
hand, wins the respect of every one, and the wife, wholly reclaimed,
"loves, honors, and obeys" him.

=Rumolt=, the chief cook of Prince G[:u]nther of Burgundy.--_Nibelungen
Lied_, 800 (1210).

=Rumpelstilzchen= [_Rumple.stiltz.skin_], an irritable, deformed dwarf. He
aided a miller's daughter, who had been enjoined by the king to spin
straw into gold; and the condition he made with her for this service,
was that she should give him for wife her first daughter. The miller's
daughter married the king, and when her first daughter was born, the
mother grieved so bitterly that the dwarf consented to absolve her of
her promise, if, within three days she could find out his name. The
first day passed, but the secret was not discovered; the second passed
with no better success; but on the third day, some of the queen's
servants heard a strange voice singing:

Little dreams my dainty dame
Rumpelstilzchen is my name.

The queen, being told thereof, saved her child, and the dwarf killed
himself from rage.--_German Popular Stories._

=Runa=, the dog of Argon and Ruro, sons of Annir, king of Inis-Thona, an
island of Scandinavia.--Ossian, _The War of Inis-Thorna_.[TN-139]

=Runners.=

1. Iphicl[^e]s, son of Phylakos and Klym[)e]n[^e]. Hesiod says he could
run over ears of corn without bending the stems; and Demar[=a]tos says
he could run on the surface of the sea.--_Argonauts_, i. 60.

2. Camilla, queen of the Volsci, was so swift of foot that she could run
over standing corn, without bending the ears, and over the sea without
wetting her feet.--Virgil, _AEneid_, vii. 303; xi. 433.

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Pope.

3. L[)a]das, the swift runner of King Alexander. He ran so fast that he
never left a foot-print on the ground.

4. Phidipp[)i]d[^e]s, a professional courier, ran from Athens to Sparta
(150 miles) in two days.

5. Theag[)e]n[^e]s, a native of Thasos, was noted for his swiftness of
foot.

[Asterism] The Greek hemerodromos would run from twenty to thirty-six
leagues in a day.

=Runnymede=, the _nom de plume_ of Benj. Disraeli, in the _Times_
(1805-1881).

=Rupert=, _i.e._ Major Roselheim, the betrothed of Meeta, "the maid of
Mariendorpt."--S. Knowles, _The Maid of Mariendorpt_ (1838).

_Rupert_ (_Prince_), in the service of Charles II. Intro