“I will give thee,” said Bendigeid Vran, “a caldron, the property of which is that if one of thy men be slain to-day, and be cast therein to-morrow, he will be as well as he was at the best, except that he will not regain his speech.”--The Mabinogion (“Branwen,” etc., twelfth century).
Vrience (King), one of the knights of the Round Table. He married Morgan le Fay, half-sister of King Arthur.--Sir T. Malory, History of Prince Arthur (1470).
Vulcan was the lawful offspring of Jupiter and Juno, but the former, upon beholding his homely son, kicked him out of heaven.
“From morn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer’s day, and with the setting sun
Drop’t from the zenith like a falling star
On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.”
Milton, Paradise Lost, I.
His leg was broken, and he remained lame forever after. He was a blacksmith, and employed by the Cyclops to forge their thunderbolts.