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 HELENA,, a of humble origin, said to have been the daughter of an keeper, was the of. Of her nothing certain is known. She had one son,. In  was raised to  by the   and, and forced to  Helena to make room for a more. After her son became she was treated with great respect and d, and  in  and  were after her d Helenopolis. She became a when her son was, and during a  to  she discovered the  and the. Her zealous of their  made her a favourite with the , and finally procured her the  of ; but  , such as Zosimus, regard her with dislike, and even question, though without ground, the  of her. Many occur with the  of Helena, but it is difficult or impossible in many cases to determine whether they belong to  Helena or to others of the  of  bearing the same.

 HELENSBURGH, a and favourite of,, is situated at the  of the , a branch of the , opposite , which is about 4  distant. It is 24 N.W. of  by. In the site of the  was  for, and in  Helensburgh, named after ,  of , the  of the , was erected into a , under a  and. The boundaries have since been enlarged. The is pleasantly situated on a gentle, the  mostly intersecting each other at , while many of the  are surrounded by ,—peculiarities that produce an agreeable regularity and openness. A handsome was  in. Near the is a, and within its boundaries a public. Convenient as headquarters for visiting the whole district of the, and connected with by both  and , Helensburgh is much frequented in. The in  was 6231; it is now  estimated at fully 10,000.

 HÊLIAND (i.e., Heiland) is an of the. According to some critics it is a fragment of a larger work which dealt with the entire material of the Old and New Testaments. The part which we now possess sets forth the life of as told by the four s, whose various narratives the  seeks to harmonize. The is said to have been  by a  writer at the request of the  ; but who the  was, except that he was a, we have no means of knowing. The general opinion is that he lived in, but even this is uncertain. Like all the most ancient remains of, Hêliand is written in  , of which the  had a perfect mastery. It is almost the only remnant of the, and has therefore a high  value, but it is still more interesting from a  point of view. The does not merely repeat his authorities; while true to the main facts of the, he allows his  to play upon them in a free and  spirit. He realized with intense force the incidents in the career of the of, and gives vitality and definiteness to the received conception of  character. The is simple and popular, but marked by an elevation of sentiment adapted to the theme and to its  treatment; and by a happy phrase the  often succeeds in imparting to his style colour, variety, and animation. The is remarkable in the  of  and of  ; the Hêliand affords proof that the impulse which revealed itself in these two s was also experienced to the full by the higher s of. The aspects of this great  are hardly less important than those which claim the attention of the purely  student. Of all the s the  were the last to submit to the influence of. They regarded as the symbol of , and clung as long as they could to the. Not until, after more than thirty of fare, forced upon them  institutions did they generally accept the new , and even then, while they talked of  and the , they thought of  and , and took delight in the   which had been handed down from remote periods. was of a gentle and conciliatory nature, and by treating the with kindness obliterated to a large extent the recollection of ’s severity. Hêliand was one of the with which he and the  endeavoured to replace , so that we may regard it as the monument of a struggle between two. The is dominated by the ideals and the sympathies of the, but occasional touches remind us of the order of life that was passing away, and these have been found suggestive by  on.

1em  HELICON, a, or more strictly a, of in , celebrated in as the favourite haunt of the , is situated between  and the. On the fertile eastern slopes stood a and   to the, and adorned with beautiful , which, taken by  to beautify , were consumed there by a  in  Hard by sparkled the famous  of  , Aganippe and Hippocrene, the latter fabled to have gushed from the  at the tread of the ed  , whose favourite browsing place was there. At the neighbouring dwelt the ancient, a fact which probably enhanced the  fame of the region. Pausanias, who describes Helicon in his ninth book, asserts that it was the most  in, and that neither ous  nor  was to be found on it, while many of its  possessed a miraculous. The highest summit, the present Paleovuni (old hill), rises to the height of about 5000. Modern travellers, aided by ancient remains and, and guided by the local descriptions of Pausanias, have succeeded in identifying many of the ancient classical spots. For details of modern research see Clarke’s Travels in Various Countries (vol.vii., ), Dodwell’s Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, and Leake’s Travels in Northern Greece (vol.ii, ).  HELIGOLAND (, Helgoland), Heiligeland, or Hellige Land, as the natives call it, is one of the, and an , situated in the 