Gladsheim.—The palace of Odin, in which were the great hall Valhalla (the hall of the slain) and the twelve seats occupied by the gods when holding council.
Glasir.—A marvelous grove in Asgard, in which the leaves were all of shimmering red gold.
Glendoveer.—In Hindu mythology is a kind of sylph, the most lovely of the good spirits.
Gnome.—One of a class of spirits or imaginary beings which were supposed to tenant the interior parts of the earth, and in whose charge mines, quarries, etc., were left. Rübezahl, of the German legends, is often cited as a representative of the class.
Goblins and Bogies.—Familiar demons of popular superstition, a spirit which lurks about houses. It is also called hobgoblin. Goblin is used in a serious sense by Shakespeare in Hamlet, where the ghost is supposed to be a “spirit of health or goblin damned.”
Graces, The Three.—See “[Charites].”
Gradivus (grad-i´vus).—i. e. the marching one. A surname of Mars.
Grææ (grē´ē), lit., “the old women” (Gr.).—So called because they had gray hair from their birth. They were the sisters of the Gorgons, and were three in number. They had but one eye and one tooth to use between them.
Gyas (jī´as), Gyes (jī´ēz), or Gyges (jī´jēz).—One of the giants with a hundred hands who made war upon the gods.
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