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r the Great, 48 Gordius, a countryman who, arriving in Phrygia in a wagon, was made king by the people, thus interpreting an oracle, 48 Gorgons, three monstrous females, with huge teeth, brazen claws and snakes for hair, sight of whom turned beholders to stone, Medusa, the most famous, slain by Perseus Gorlois, Duke of Tintadel Gouvernail, squire of Isabella, queen of Lionesse, protector of her son Tristram while young, and his squire in knighthood Graal, the Holy, cup from which the Saviour drank at Last Supper, taken by Joseph of Arimathea to Europe, and lost, its recovery becoming a sacred quest for Arthur's knights Graces, three goddesses who enhanced the enjoyments of life by refinement and gentleness; they were Aglaia (brilliance), Euphrosyne (joy), and Thalia (bloom) Gradas'so, king of Sericane Graeae, three gray haired female watchers for the Gorgons, with one movable eye and one tooth between the three Grand Lama, Buddhist pontiff in Thibet Grendel, monster slain by Beowulf Gryphon (griffin), a fabulous animal, with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, dwelling in the Rhipaean mountains, between the Hyperboreans and the one eyed Arimaspians, and guarding the gold of the North. Guebers, Persian fire worshippers. Guendolen, wife of Locrine. Guenevere, wife of King Arthur, beloved by Launcelot. Guerin, lord of Vienne, father of Oliver. Guiderius, son of Cymbeline. Guillamurius, king in Ireland. Guimier, betrothed of Caradoc. Gullinbursti, the boar drawing Frey's car. Gulltopp, Heimdell's horse. Gunfasius, King of the Orkneys. Ganther, Burgundian king, brother of Kriemhild. Gutrune, half sister to Hagen. Gwern son of Matholch and Branwen. Gwernach the Giant. Gwiffert Petit, ally of Geraint. Gwyddno, Garanhir, King of Gwaelod. Gwyr, judge in the court of Arthur. Gyoll, river. H Hades, originally the god of the nether world--the name later used to designate the gloomy subterranean land of the dead. Haemon, son of Creon of Thebes, and lover of Antigone. Haemonian city. Haemus, Mount, northern boundary of Thrace. Hagan, a principal character in the Nibelungen Lied, slayer of Siegfried. HALCYONE, daughter of Aeneas, and the beloved wife of Ceyx, who, when he was drowned, flew to his floating body, and the pitying gods changed them both to birds (kingfishers), who nest at sea during a certain calm week in winter (
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