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Havelok the Dane

(Encyclopedia)Havelok the Dane, English 13th-century metrical romance. It concerns a prince brought up as a scullion, who, after discovering his true identity, wins the kingdoms of Denmark and England. The poem's e...

Hereward the Wake

(Encyclopedia)Hereward the Wake hĕrˈĭwərd [key], fl. 1070, Anglo-Saxon rebel against William I. A thane, he apparently held land in Lincolnshire. In 1070 he sacked Peterborough with the aid of a Danish fleet an...

Frederick the Fair

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Fair, c.1286–1330, German antiking (1314–26), duke of Austria, son of Albert I, German king. On the death of Henry VII, Holy Roman emperor and German king, the split between the supp...

Frederick the Great

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Great: see Frederick II, king of Prussia. ...

Frederick the Warlike

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Warlike: see Frederick I, elector of Saxony. ...

Frederick the Wise

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Wise: see Frederick III, elector of Saxony. ...

Great Elector, the

(Encyclopedia)Great Elector, the: see Frederick William. ...

Golden Ass, The

(Encyclopedia)Golden Ass, The: see Apuleius, Lucius. ...

Golden Bough, The

(Encyclopedia)Golden Bough, The: see Frazer, Sir James George. ...

Golden Legend, The

(Encyclopedia)Golden Legend, The, collection of saints' lives written in the 13th cent. by Jacobus da Varagine. Originally entitled Legenda sanctorum [readings in the lives of the saints], it soon came to be called...