, slept for fifty-seven years.

Gyneth slept 500 years, by the enchantment of Merlin.

The seven sleepers slept for 250 years in Mount Celion.

St. David slept for seven years. (See ORMANDINE.)[TN-128]

(The following are not dead, but only sleep till the fulness of their
respective times:--Elijah, Endymion, Merlin, King Arthur, Charlemagne,
Frederick Barbarossa and his knights, the three Tells, Desmond of
Kilmallock, Thomas of Erceldoune, Boabdil el Chico, Brian Boroimhe, Knez
Lazar, King Sebastian of Portugal, Olaf Tryggvason, the French slain in
the Sicilian Vespers, and one or two others.)

=Riquet with the Tuft=, the beau-ideal of ugliness, but with the power
of bestowing wit and intelligence on the person he loved best. Riquet
fell in love with a most beautiful woman, as stupid as he was ugly, but
possessing the power of giving beauty to the person she loved best. The
two married, whereupon Riquet gave his bride wit, and she bestowed on
him beauty.--Charles Perrault, _Contes des F['e]es_ ("Riquet [`a] la
Houppe," 1697).

[Asterism] This tale is borrowed from the _Nights_ of Straparola. It is
imitated by Mde. Villeneuve in her _Beauty and the Beast_.

=Risingham= (_Bertram_), the vassal of Philip of Mortham. Oswald Wycliffe
induced him to shoot his lord at Marston Moor; and for this deed the
vassal demanded all the gold and movables of his late master. Oswald,
being a villain, tried to outwit Bertram, and even to murder him; but it
turned out that Philip of Mortham,[TN-129] was not killed, neither was
Oswald Wycliffe, his heir, for Redmond O'Neale (Rokeby's page) was found
to be the son and heir of Philip of Mortham.--Sir W. Scott, _Rokeby_
(1812).

=Ritho= or =Rython=, a giant who had made himself furs of the beards of
kings killed by him. He sent to King Arthur, to meet him on Mount
Aravius, or else to send his beard to him without delay. Arthur met him,
slew him, and took "fur" as a spoil. Drayton says it was this Rython who
carried off Hel[)e]na, the niece of Duke Hoel; but Geoffrey of Monmouth
says that King Arthur, having killed the Spanish giant, told his army
"he had found none so great in strength _since_ he killed the giant
Ritho;" by which it seems that the Spanish giant and Ritho are different
persons, although it must be confessed the scope of the chronicle seems
to favor their identity.--Geoffrey, _British History_, x. 3 (1142).

As how great Rython's self he [_Arthur_] slew ...