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Logres . England is so called from Logris or Locrine, eldest son of the mythical king Brute.

…le royaume de Logres,
Qui jadis fut la terre ès ogres.
   —Chrétien de Troyes: Parzival (1170).

Logria, England. (See Logres.)

Logris or Locris, same as Locrin or Locrine, eldest son of Brute the mythical king of Britain.

Logris, England.

I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever; that is to say, out of the country of England.—Sir T, Malory: History of Prince Arthur, iii. 19 (1470).

Lohengrin, “Knight of the Swan,” son of Parzival. He came to Brabante in a ship drawn by a swan; and, having liberated the duchess Elsen who was a captive, he married her, but declined to reveal his name. Not long after this, he went against the Huns and Saracens, performed marvels of bravery, and returned to Germany covered with glory. Elsen, being laughed at by her friends for not knowing the name of her husband, resolved to ask him of his family; but no sooner had she done so than the white swan reappeared and carried him away.—Wolfram von Eschenbach (a minnesinger, thirteenth century).

L’Oiseleu [“the bird-catcher”], the person who plays the magic flute.—Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1791).

Loki, the god of strife and spirit of all evil. His wife is Angerbode , i.e. “messenger of wrath,” and his three sons are Fenris, Midgard, and Hela. Loki gave the blind god Höder an arrow of mistletoe, and told him to try it; so the blind Höder discharged the arrow and slew Baldr (the Scandinavian Apollo). This calamity was so grievous to the gods, that they unanimously agreed to restore him to life again.—Scandinavian Mythology. (See Lamech’s Song, p. 588.)

Lokman, an Arabian contemporary with David and Solomon. Noted for his Fables.

Lolah, one of the three beauties of the harem into which don Juan in female disguise was admitted. She “was dusk as India and as warm.” The other two were Katinka and Dudù.—Byron: Don Juan, vi. 40, 41 (1824).

Lollius, an author often referred to by writers of the Middle Ages, but probably a “Mrs. Harris” of Kennahtwhar.
Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.—Coleridge.

London, a poem by Dr. Johnson, in imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal (1738).

London Antiquary (A). John Camden Hotten published his Dictionary of Modern Slang, etc., under this pseudonym.

London Bridge is Built on Woolpacks. In the reign of Henry II., Pious Peter, a chaplain of St. Mary Colechurch, in the Poultry, built a stone bridge in lieu of the wooden one which had been destroyed by fire. The king helped him by a tax on wool, and hence the saying referred to above.

London Spy (The), by Ned Ward (1698–1700). (See Old and New London, vol. i. p. 423.)

Long (Tom), the hero of an old popular tale entitled The Merry Conceits of Tom Long the Carrier, etc.

Long Peter, Peter Aartsen, the Flemish painter. He was so called from his extraordinary height (1507–1573).

Long-Sword (Richard), son of the “fair Rosamond” and Henry II. His brother was Geoffroy archbishop of York.

Long-sword, the brave son of beauteous Rosamond.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xviii. (1613).