Ullin, the Irish name for Ulster.
He pursued the chase on Ullin, on the moss-covered top 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).
Ulric, son of Werner (i.e., count of Siegendorf). With the help of Gabor, he saved the count of Stral´enheim from the Oder; but murdered him afterwards for the wrongs he had done his father and himself, especially in seeking to oust them from the princely inheritance of Siegendorf.--Byron, Werner (1822).
Ulri´ca, 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.--E. Stirling, The Prisoner of State (1847).
Ulrica, alias Martha, mother of Bertha, the betrothed of Hereward (3 syl.).--Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).
Ulrica, daughter of the late thane of Torquilstone; alias Dame Urfried, an old sibyl at Torquilstone Castle.--Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time Richard I.).
Ulster (The kings of). The kings of Ulster were called O’Neil; those of Munster, O’Brien; of Connaught, O’Connor; of Leinster, MacMorrough; and of Meath, O’Melaghlin.
Ultimus Romano´rum, Horace Walpole (1717-1797).