MELISSAE (Melissai) Honey nymphs, another name for the Meliae. They were also Dryads of the mountain ash. MELIAE (Meliai) Nymphs of honey, bees and honeydew (manna). MAENADS (Mainades) The frenzied nymphs of the train of Dionysus. They were probably a type of Oceanid nymph. LEIMENIDES Nymphs of the water-meadows-pastures thick with lush grass and flowers. They probably belonged to the train of the goddesses of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone and Hecate. LAMPADES Torch-bearing nymphs of the underworld. HELEIONOMAE (Heleionomai) Naiad nymphs of fresh-water marshes and wetlands. HAMADRYADS (Hamadryad) Oak-tree Dryads whose life force was bound to that of a particular tree. The most famous of them were the fifty Nereids. They had the schools of fish, and other sea creatures in their keeping. HALIAE (Haliai) Nymphs of the sea, the sands, and the rocky shores. They were perhaps numbered amongst the Oceanids. Dryads of mountain pines were known as Oreads, those of ash-trees were called Meliae, Hamadryads were of the oaks, and Meliades of fruit-trees.ĮPIMELIDES (or Epimeliades) Nymphs of highland pasture, the protectresses of sheep-flocks. Some of them had their life force bound to that of a specific tree, usually the loftiest in a forest, or one in a sacred grove of the gods. Another name for the Epimelides.ĬRENAEAE (Krenaiai) Naiad nymphs of wells and fountains.ĭRYADS (Dryades) The nymphs of trees and forests.

They were also known as Thyiades.īUCOLAE (Boukolai) Bucolic or rustic nymphs. They were daughters of the wind-god Boreas, or Okeanos, the earth-encircling fresh-water stream.īACCHAE The Bacchic nymphs, companions of Dionysus.

They were probably the same as the Leimenides, a type of Oceanid.ĪURAE (Aurai) The nymphs of the cooling breezes. Lives are threatened and homes are at stake-especially for Thor, who shows signs of a grave illness brought to him at the first prick of warfare.When Haakon finally allows the winds to bear him home after four years at sea, he finds the family on the brink of tragedy.ANTHUSAE (Anthousai) Nymphs of flowers. With his brother and longtime rival half a world away on the Norwegian ice trade, the Norgaard farm has become a haven-until a decades-old feud with the neighboring farm wrenches the family toward the fiercest confrontation on Blackbird Mountain since the Civil War. Now married to the woman whose hand they both sought, Thor is honored to be the keeper of Aven’s heart. But when it comes to passion and rivalry, they’re desperate to discover if God’s peace can dwell in their hearts.Thor Norgaard, a Deaf man in rural Appalachia, once led a secluded life in the shadows of his charismatic brother, Haakon. Two brothers were raised to know that Viking blood runs in their veins.

Daughters of northern shores