N + 

Naiads + 

(Naˈiads), water-nymphs. + 

Namo + 

(Naˈmo), Duke of Bavaria, one of Charlemagne’s knights, ff. + 

Nanna + 

(Nanˈna), wife of Baldur. + 

Nanters + 

(Nanˈters), British king. + 

Nantes + 

(Nantes), site of Caradoc’s castle. + 

Nape + 

(Naˈpe), a dog of Diana. + 

Narcissus + 

(Nar-cisˈsus), who died of unsatisfied love for his own image in the water. + 

Nausicaa + 

(Nau-sicˈa-a), daughter of King Alcinoüs, who befriended Ulysses. + 

Nausithoüs + 

(Nau-sithˈo-us), king of Phaeacians. + 

Naxos + 

(Naxˈos), Island of. + 

Negus + 

(Neˈgus), King of Abyssinia. + 

Nemea + 

(Ne-meˈa), forest devastated by a lion killed by Hercules. + 

Nemean Games + 

(Ne-meˈan Games), held in honor of Jupiter and Hercules. + 

Nemean Lion + 

(Ne-meˈan Lion), killed by Hercules. + 

Nemesis + 

(Nemˈe-sis), goddess of vengeance. + 

Nennius + 

(Nenˈni-us), British combatant of Caesar. + 

Neoptolemus + 

(Ne-op-tolˈe-mus), son of Achilles. + 

Nepenthe + 

(Ne-penˈthe), ancient drug to cause forgetfulness of pain or distress. + 

Nephele + 

(Nephˈe-le), mother of Phryxus and Helle. + 

Nephthys + 

(Nephˈthys), Egyptian goddess. + 

Neptune + 

(Nepˈtune), identical with Poseidon, god of the sea. + 

Nereids + 

(Neˈre-ids), sea-nymphs, daughters of Nereus and Doris. + 

Nereus + 

(Neˈre-us), a sea-god. + 

Nessus + 

(Nesˈsus), a centaur killed by Hercules, whose jealous wife sent him a robe or shirt steeped in the blood of Nessus, which poisoned him. + 

Nestor + 

(Nesˈtor), king of Pylos, renowned for his wisdom, justice, and knowledge of war. + 

Nibelungen Hoard + 

(Niˈbe-lunˈgen Hoard), treasure seized by Siegfried from the Nibelungs, buried in the Rhine by Hagan after killing Siegfried, and lost when Hagan was killed by Kriemhild; theme of Wagner’s four music-dramas, The Ring of the Nibelungen. + 

Nibelungen Lied + 

(Niˈbe-lunˈgen Lied), German epic, giving the same nature-myth as the Norse Volsunga Saga, concerning the Hoard. + 

Nibelungen Ring + 

(Niˈbe-lunˈgen Ring), Wagner’s music-dramas. + 

Nibelungs + 

(Niˈbe-lungs), the, a race of Northern dwarfs. + 

Nidhogge + 

(Nidˈhogge), a serpent in the lower world that lives on the dead. + 

Niffleheim + 

(Niffleˈheim), mist world of the Norsemen; the Hades of absent spirits. + 

Nile + 

(Nile), Egyptian river. + 

Nimrod + 

(Nimˈrod), tower of. + 

Ninus + 

(Niˈnus), Tomb of. + 

Niobe + 

(Niˈo-be), daughter of Tantalus, proud Queen of Thebes, whose seven sons and seven daughters were killed by Apollo and Diana, at which Amphion, her husband, killed himself, and Niobe wept until she was turned to stone. + 

Nisus + 

(Niˈsus), King of Megara. + 

Noah + 

(Noˈah), as legendary ancestor of French, Roman, German, and British peoples. + 

Noman + 

(Noˈman), name assumed by Ulysses. + 

Norns + 

(Norns), the three Scandinavian Fates, Urdur (the past), Verdandi (the present), and Skuld (the future). + 

Nothung + 

(Noˈthung), magic sword. + 

Notus + 

(Noˈtus), southwest wind. + 

Nox + 

(Nox), daughter of Chaos and sister of Erebus; personification of night. + 

Numa + 

(Nuˈma), second king of Rome. + 

Nymphs + 

(Nymphs), beautiful maidens, lesser divinities of nature: Dryads and Hamadryads, tree-nymphs; Naiads, spring-, brook-, and river-nymphs; Nereids, sea-nymphs; Oreads, mountain- or hill-nymphs. + 