Ulvfagre, the fierce Dane, who massacred the Culdees of Io´na, and having bound Aodh in iron, carried him to the church, demanding of him where he had concealed the church treasures. At that moment a mysterious gigantic figure in white appeared, and, taking Ulvfagre by the arm, led him to the statue of St. Columb, which instantly fell on him and killed him.
The tottering image was dashed
Down from its lofty pedestal;
On Ulvfagre’s helm it crashed.
Helmet, and skull, and flesh, and brain,
It crushed as millstones crush the grain.
Campbell, Reullura.
Ulysses, a corrupt form of Odusseus [O. dus´.suce], the king of Ithăca. He is one of the chief heroes in Homer’s Iliad, and the chief hero of the Odyssey. Homer represents him as being craftily wise and full of devices. Virgil ascribes to him the invention of the Wooden Horse.
Ulysses was very unwilling to join the expedition to Troy, and pretended to be mad. Thus, when Palamēdês came to summon him to the war, he was plowing the sand of the seashore and sowing it with salt.
Ulysses’s bow. Only Ulysses could draw this bow, and he could shoot an arrow from it through twelve rings.