Chapter Horns of the Altar to Horse of H by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Orlando being called Roland. The word means "the little vigilant one."
   White Surrey. The favourite horse of King Richard III.

"Saddle White Surrey for the field to-morrow."
Shakespeare: Richard III., v. 3.

   Wzmakh. A model Orloff stallion.
   Wooden Horse. (See Wooden.)
   Xanthos. One of the horses of Achilles, who announced to the hero his approaching death when unjustly chidden by him. Its sire was Zephyros, and dam Podarge (q.v.). The word means "chestnut-coloured."
   (See Hunters And Runners.)
    O'Donohue's white horse. Those waves which come on a windy day, crested with foam. The spirit of the hero reappears every May-day, and is seen gliding, to sweet but unearthly music, over the lakes of Killarney, on his favourite white horse. It is preceded by groups of young men and maidens, who fling spring-flowers in his path. (Derrick's Letters.
   T. Moore has a poem on the subject in his Irish Melodies, No. vi.; it is entitled O'Donohue's Mistress, and refers to a tradition that a young and beautiful girl became enamoured of the visionary chieftain, and threw herself into the lake that he might carry her off for his bride.