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Bonfanti
Yaben, Jacinto R
Argentinian Former naval officer and biographer. Author of Biografías argentinas y sudamericanas
Yacaré
pseud. of Felipe H. Fernández, Argentine popular poet and songwriter, 1889-1949
Yacub Almansur
Abu Yusuf Ya-qub Almansur, third emir of the Almohad dynasty, c. 1160-99, ruler of Morocco and Spain.
Yáculo
monster mentioned in the Pharsalia
Yadua
Jewish monster
Yahiz, al-
Amr b. Bahr, al-Jahiz, Arabic writer, c. 775-869, author of The Book of Animals and The Book of Beauties and Antitheses
Yahoos
characters in the fourth book of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, also characters in a Borges story
Yajurveda
Yajurveda, one of four Vedas
Yakub el Doliente
19th century ruler of the Sudan in Borges story
Yale
university in New Haven, Connecticut, founded in 1701
Yale Monthly
periodical founded in 1906 by Stephen Dows Thaw
Yama
Hindu god of death
Yamila
character in the Arabian Nights
Yao
mythical first Chinese emperor, reigned 2357-2255
Yarmolinsky, Marcelo
character in Borges story
Yasodhara
Gautama Buddha's wife, sometimes Jasodhara
Year of Meteors
Whitman poem
Year of Prophesying, A
H. G. Wells work, 1925
Years Between, The
Kipling's book poetry, 1919.
Yeats, William Butler
Irish poet, playwright and essayist, 1865-1939, author of The Celtic Twilight, In the Seven Woods, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Winding Stair, The King of the Great Clock Tower, Per Amica Silentia Lunae, Mythologies, A Vision, Autobiographies and other works
Yeats-Brown, Francis
British soldier and political figure, 1886-1944, mentioned here as editor of 1938 edition of Taylor's Confessions of a Thug
Yedo
Edo, old name for Tokyo
Yemen
country at southern end of Arabian Peninsula
Yerba vieja
Book written by Ricardo Hogg
Yerbal
stream in Lavalleja, Uruguay
Yerbal
street in Buenos Aires
Ygg
Scandinavian god of death
Yggdrasill
ash tree important in Norse mythology
Yi
river in Uruguay
Yidische Zaitung
Yidische Zeitung or Zaitung, Buenos Aires Yiddish newspaper
Yin
genie
Ykub Khan, Abdul
British Muslim leader in the 1930s, perhaps Yakub
Ynglinga Saga
Saga of the Ynglingar, on the genealogies and divine origin of the kings of Norway and Sweden
Yo alecciono
Gomensoro poem
Yo fusilé a la Muerte a quemarropa
Anglada verse
Yo soy aquel que ayer no más decía
Darío poem in Cantos de vida y esperanza, 1905
Yo soy del barrio del Alto/Soy del barrio del Retiro
traditional milonga verse
Yo soy los otros
Anglada book of pantheistic odes, 1921
Yocasta
mythical Greek queen, wife and mother of Oedipus
Yoknapatawpha
imaginary county in Mississippi, sole property of William Faulkner
Yolao
Iolaus, Greek mythological hero, companion of Herakles
Yongden, Lama
Tibetan lama, 1899-1955, author of Mipam, adopted son of Alexandra David-Neel
Yorick
a skull in Shakespeare's Hamlet once belonged to this court jester
York
ancient city in Yorkshire, England, formerly Jorvik
York Minster
old church in city of York
Yorkshire
county in northern England
Yosef, Akiba ben
Yoske Nigger
New York gangster mentioned in Borges story
Young
owner of a meat-salting plant
Young, Brigham
US Mormon leader, 1801-1877
Young, Edward
English poet, 1683-1765, author of The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
Youth
Conrad novel, 1902
Youwarkee
mythical creature, half-woman, half-bird, character in Paltock's Peter Wilkins also mentioned by Browning
Yrigoyen, Hipolito
Argentine politician, populist leader and president, 1852-1933, sometimes misspelled Irigoyen
Yu el Grande
Chinese emperor, ruled 2205-2198, founder of the Hsia or Hia dynasty
Yu Tsun
character in Borges story, also the name of a character in the Hung Lu Meng or Dream of the Red Chamber
Yunán
leprous king in the Arabian Nights
Yunayd
character in Attar poem
Yunnan
province of southwestern China
Yunque
Gustav Frenssen novel, 1927
Yunque, Alvaro
pseudonym of Arístides Gandolfi Herrero, Argentine poet, 1889-1982, associated with the Boedo group
Yusuf
Druse character in Bustos Domecq story
Yzur
Lugones story about a chimpanzee, in Las fuerzas extrañas, 1906