Chapter Ubaldo to Ulysses and Polyphemos of U by Brewer's Readers Handbook

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   —Byron: Don Juan, ii. 83 (1819).

Ulad, Ulster.

When Ulad’s three champions lay sleeping in gore.
   —Moore: Irish Melodies, iv. (“Avenging and Bright…” 1814).

Ulania, queen of Islanda. She sent a golden shield to Charlemagne, to be given as a prize to his bravest knight, and whoever won it might claim the donor in marriage.—Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, xv. (1516).

Ul-Erin, the guiding star of Ireland.

When night came down, I struck at times the warning boss. I struck and looked on high for fiery-haired Ul-Erin; nor absent was the star of heaven; it travelled red between the clouds.—Ossian: Temora, iv.

Ulfin, the page of Gondibert’s grandsire, and the fa ithful Achatês of Gondibert’s father. He cured Gondibert by a cordial kept in his sword-hilt.—Sir W. Davenant: Gondibert (died 1668).

Ulien’s Son, Rodomont.—Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (1516).

Ulin, an enchantress who had no power over those who remained faithful to Allah and their duty; but if any fell into error or sin, she had full power to do as she liked. Thus, when Misnar (sultan of India) mistrusted the protection of Allah, she transformed him into a toad. When the vizier Horam believed a false report, obviously untrue, she transformed him also into a toad. And when the princess Hemjunah, to avoid a marriage projected by her father, ran away with a stranger, her indiscretion placed her in the power of the enchantress, who transformed her likewise into a toad. Ulin was ultimately killed by Misnar sultan of Delhi, who felled her to the ground with a blow.—Sir C. Morell [J. Ridley]: Tales of the Genii, vi., viii. (1751).

Ullin, Fingal’s aged bard, called “the sweet voice of resounding Cona.”

Ullin, the Irish name for Ulster.

He pursued the chase on Ullin, on the moss-covered tip of Drumardo.—Ossian: Temora, ii.

Ullin’s Daughter (Lord), a young lady who eloped with the chief of Ulva’s Isle, and induced a boatman to row them over Lochgyle during a storm. The boat was capsized just as lord Ullin and his retinue reached the shore. He saw the peril, he cried in agony, “Come back, come back! and I’ll forgive your Highland chief;” but it was too late,—the “waters wild rolled o’er his child, and he was left lamenting.”—Campbell: Lord Ullin’s Daughter (a ballad, 1803).

Ul-Lochlin, the guiding star of Lochlin of Scandinavia.—Ossian: Cath-Loda, ii.

Ulric, son of Werner (i.e. count of Siegendorf). With the help of Gabor, he saved the count of Stralenheim from the Oder; but murdered him afterwards for the wrongs he had done his father and himself, especially in seeking to oust them of the princely inheritance of Siegendorf.—Byron: Werner (1822).

ULRICA, in Charles XII., by J. R. Planché (1826).

Ulrica, a girl of great beauty and noble determination of character, natural daughter of Ernest de Fridberg. Dressed in the clothes of Herman (the deaf-and-dumb jailer-lad), she gets access to the dungeon where her father is confined as a “prisoner of State,” and contrives his escape, but he is recaptured. Whereupon Christine (a young woman in the service of the countess Marie) goes direct to Frederick II. and obtains his pardon.—Stirling: The Prisoner of State (1847).