Gulna´rê

(3 syl. ), daughter of Faras´chê (3 syl. ), whose husband was king of an under-sea empire. A usurper drove the king, her father, from his throne, and Gulnarê sought safety in the Island of the Moon. Here she was captured, made a slave, sold to the king of Persia, and became his favorite, but preserved a most obstinate and speechle silence for twelve months. Then the king made her his wife, and she told him her history. In due time a son was born, whom they called Beder (“the full moon”). Gulnarê says that the under-sea folk are never wetted by the water, that they can see as well as we can, that they speak the language “of Solomon’s seal,” and can transport themselves instantaneously from place to place.— Arabian Arabian Nights (“Beder and Giauharê”). Gulnare (2 syl. ), queen of the harem, and the most beautiful of all the slaves of Seyd [ Seed ]. She was rescued by Conrad the corsair from the flames of the palace; and, when Conrad was imprisoned, she went to his dungeon, confe ed her love, and proposed that he should murder the sultan and flee. As Conrad refused to a a inate Seyd, she herself did it, and then fled with Conrad to the “Pirate’s Isle.” The rest of the tale is continued in Lara , in which Gulnare a umes the name of Kaled, and appears as a page.—Byron, The Corsair (1814).