We were recalling a delightful excursion up to the herthaburg, on the road to Sassnitz, that "altar of sacrifice" which tradition connects with the mysterious rites of the beautiful goddess hertha, mentioned by Tacitus, when suddenly we overheard voices.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux
Two of the best poems of the nineteenth century, among the masterpieces of their authors, are Swinburne's hertha, and Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra, and they are both ecstatically didactic.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
They raid planets like Set and hertha and Melkarth, where the locals haven't anything to fight with-or anything worth fighting for.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
