Chapter H.B. to Hamet of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Hagan, son of a mortal and a sea-goblin, the Achillês of German romance. He stabbed Siegfried while drinking from a brook, and laid the body at the door of Kriemhild, that she might suppose he had been killed by assassins. Hagan, having killed Siegfried, then seized the “Nibelung hoard,” and buried it in the Rhine, intending to appropriate it. Kriemhild, after her marriage with Etzel king of the Huns, invited him to the court of her husband, and cut off his head. He is described as “well grown, strongly built, with long sinewy legs, deep broad chest, hair slightly grey, of terrible visage, and of lordly gait” (stanza 1789).—The Nibelungen Lied (1210).

Hagarenes, the descendants of Hagar. The Arabs and the Spanish Moors are so called.

Often he [St. James] hath been seen conquering and destroying the Hagarenes.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, II. iv.6(1615).

Hagenbach (Sir Archibald von), governor of La Ferette.—Sir W. Scott: Anne of Geiersteen (time, Edward IV.).

Hague (I syl). This word means “meadow,” and is called in the Dutch, S’ Gravenhagen (“the count’s hague or meadow”).

Haiatalnefous , daughter and only child of Armanos king of the “Isle of Ebony.” She and Badoura were the two wives of prince Camaralzaman, and gave birth at the same time to two princes. Badoura called her son Amgiad (“the most glorious”) and Haiatalnefous called hers Assad (“the most happy”).—Arabian Nights (“Camaralzaman and Badoura”).

Haidee, “the beauty of the Cycladês,” was the daughter of Lambro a Greek pirate, living in one of the Cycladês. Her mother was a Moorish maiden of Fez, who died when Haidee was a mere child. Being brought up in utter loneliness, she was wholly Nature’s child. One day, don Juan was cast on the shore, the only one saved from a shipwrecked crew, tossed about for many days in the long-boat. Haidee lighted on the lad, and, having nursed him in a cave, fell in love with him. A report being heard that Lambro was dead, don Juan gave a banquet, but in the midst of the revelry, the old pirate returned, and ordered don Juan to be seized and sold as a slave. Haidee broke a blood-vessel from grief and fright, and, refusing to take any nourishment, died.—Byron: Don Juan, ii. 118 iii., iv. (1819, 1821).

Lord Byron appears to have worked up no part of his poem with so much beauty and life of description as that which narrates the loves of Juan and Haidee.— Sir Egerton Brydges.

Don Juan is dashed on the shore of the Cycladês, where he is found by a beautiful and innocent girl, the daughter of an old Greek pirate. There is a very superior kind of poetry in the conception of this incident: the desolate isle—the utter loneliness of the maiden, who is ignorant as she is innocent—the helpless condition of the youth,—everything conspires to render it a true romance.—Blackwood’s Magazine.

Haimon (The Four Sons of), the title of a minnesong in the degeneracy of that poetic school which rose in Germany with the house of Hohenstaufen, and went out in the middle of the thirteenth century.

Hair. Every three days, when Corsina combed the hair of Fairstar and her two brothers, “a great many valuable jewels were combed out, which she sold at the nearest town.”—Comtesse D’Aulnoy: Fairy Tales (“Princess Fairstar,” 1682).

“I suspected,” said Corsina, “that Chery is not the brother of Fairstar, for he has neither a star nor collar of gold as Fairstar and her brothers have.” “That’s true,” rejoined her husband; “but jewels fall out of his hair, as well as out of the others’.”—Princess Fairstar.

Hair (Long). Mrs. Astley, an actress of the last century, wife of “Old Astley,” could stand up and cover her feet with her flaxen hair.