late to collect guests to his
wedding. On his ride, the daughter of the erl king met him and invited
him to dance a measure, but Sir Oluf declined. She then offered him a
pair of gold spurs, a silk doublet, and a heap of gold, if he would
dance with her: and when he refused to do so, she struck him "with an
elf-stroke." On the morrow, when all the bridal party was assembled, Sir
Oluf was found dead in a wood.--_A Danish Legend_ (Herder).

=Olympia=, countess of Holland and wife of Bire'no. Being deserted by
Bireno, she was bound naked to a rock by pirates, but was delivered by
Orlando, who took her to Ireland, where she married King Oberto (bks.
iv., v.),[TN-47]--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

_Olympia_, sister to the grand-duke of Muscovia.--Beaumont and Fletcher,
_The Loyal Subject_ (1618).

=Omawhaws= [_Om'.a.waws_] or =Omahas=, an Indian tribe of Dakota.

O, chief of the mighty Omahaws!

Longfellow, _To the Driving Cloud_.

=Ombre'lia=, the rival of Smilinda, for the love of Sharper; "strong as
the footman, as the master sweet."--Pope, _Eclogues_ ("The Basset
Table," 1715).

=O'Neal= (_Shan_), leader of the Irish insurgents in 1567. Shan O'Neal was
notorious for profligacy.

=O'Malley= (_Charles_). Dashing Irishman in Charles James Lever's novel
_Charles O'Malley_.

=O'More= (_Rory_). Hero of a novel of same name and the lover of Katharine
O'Bawn, in the popular song, Rory O'More. Novel and song are by Samuel
Lover.

=Onei'za= (3 _syl._), daughter of Moath, a well-to-do Bedouin, in love
with Thal'aba, "the destroyer" of sorcerers. Thalaba, being raised to
the office of vizier, married Oneiza, but she died on the bridal
night.--Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_, ii., vii. (1797).

=Oneida Warrior= (_The_), Outalissi (_q.v._).--Campbell, _Gertrude of
Wyoming_ (1809).

=Only= (_The_), Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, called by the Germans _Der
Einzige_, from the unique character of his writings.

[Asterism] The Italians call Bernardo Accolti, an Italian poet of the
sixteenth century, "Aretino the Only," or _L'Unico Aretino_.

=Open, Ses'ame!= (3 _syl._) the magic words which caused the cave door of
the "forty thieves" to open of itself. "Shut Sesam[^e]!" were the words
which caused it to shut. Sesame is a grain, and hence Cassim, when he
forgot the word, cried, "Open, Wheat!" "Open, Rye!" "Open, Barley!" but
the door obeyed no sound but "Open, Sesam[^e]!"--_Arabian Night