To Cerberus in helle ay be I bounde, Were it for my suster, al thy sorwe, 860 By my wil, she sholde al be thyn to-morwe.
He also carries Theseus through the sea to Poseidon,[170] and watches the flight of Phrixos and Helleover the sea.
It was the fleece of the wondrous ram who bore a boy called Phrixus and a girl called Helle across the sea; and the old Greeks said that it hung nailed to a beech-tree in the War-god's wood.
She said Phrixus and Helle must be sacrificed on an altar, to turn away the anger of the gods, who sent the famine.
Jason listened eagerly while the old singer told how the famous fleece once belonged to a ram that the friendly Neptune sent to Phryxus and Helle to enable them to escape from the persecutions of their stepmother Ino.
So the sea-god sent a golden-fleeced ram, which Phryxus and Helle mounted and thus escaped from their cruel stepmother.
Only Phryxus reached the land of Colchis, however; for when the ram flew over the sea, Helle grew frightened at the sight of the waves tossing so far beneath her, and suddenly lost her hold on the golden fleece.
The omission of #þe# would improve the grammar of this passage by giving a verb for helle wurmes, tadden ⁊ froggen.
On the 12th, the Battalion was relieved by a Company of the Worcester Regiment, and moved back into "Helle Trench," which was reached about 5.
But the ram carried the two children far away over land and sea, till he came to the Thracian Chersonese, and there Helle fell into the sea.
For Phrixus and Helle were the children of the cloud-nymph, and of Athamas the Minuan king.
H['e] haefdh gerymed rihtwisum mannum infaer to his rice, and dha dhe his beboda eallunga forseodh beodh on helle besencte.
Be dhisum is to smeagenne, hu se beo gewitnod the odherne berypdh, thonne se bidh to helle fordemed se his agen nolde for Godes lufon syllan.
Tha rihtwisan nahwar sydhdhan ne wuniadh buton mid Gode on heofonan rice, and dha arleasan nahwar buton mid deofle on helle suslum.
Thaer waes se deofol dhe modegode, ac his modignes hine awearp into helle grunde; fordhy ne maeg ure tyddernes dhyder astigan, gif heo modig bidh, thatha se engel dhaer beon ne mihte thatha he modegode.
To dham teodhan werode waes mancyn gesceapen; fordhan dhe thaet teodhe weardh mid modignysse forscyldigod, and hi ealle to awyrgedum deoflum wurdon awende, and of dhaere heofonlican blisse to helle suslum bescofene.
He refers to the colour of the Ram with the Golden Fleece, that bore Helle and Phryxus over the Hellespont.
Now to Helle the way I take, In endless peyn'y to be put; For fere of fyr apart I quake In Helle dongeon my dene is dyth.
He sayde fulle soythe, that shalle thou se, In helle shalbe no relese, Bot of that place then ment he Where synfulle care shalle ever encrese.
Ye prynces of helle open youre yate, And let my folk furthe gone, A prynce of peasse shalle enter therat Wheder ye wille or none.
And whan [thou] hast ony spirytuell consolacyon or comforte / thynke [that] they that ben in helle shall euer lacke that.
Now for a conclusyon / ymagyne in thy mynde two cytees / one full of trouble & mysery whiche is helle / an other full of Ioye and comforte whiche is paradyse.
Absteyne also from lyes at all tymes / as ye wolde from helle / for them in no wyse loueth Ihesus your spouse.
Just as Phryxus and his sister Helle were about to be sacrificed, a winged ram, with a fleece of pure gold, came out of the sea, took the brother and sister on his back, and flew away with them through the air.
Unluckily, while they were flying, Helle turned giddy, tumbled off the ram's back, and was drowned.
Well, that is the part of the sea where Helle fell.
So, being a witch, she desolated Thebes by a plague, and got a false oracle to declare that the plague should never cease so long as Phryxus and Helle were alive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
