Brewer's: Hermegyld

or Hermyngyld. The wife of the constable of Northumberland, who was converted to Christianity by Cunstance, by whose bidding she restored sight to a blind Briton. (Chaucer: Man of Lawes Tale.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Hermensul
Hermaphrodite
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