Arundgirond
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- Gironde: a river in southern France
- around
- a run
- giro: (Italian) turn, tour, rotation
- rund: (Geman) round
- rond: (French) round
- arundo: (Latin) reed; fishing rod
- Ring Around the Rosie: Nursery rhy,e (supposedly about the Black Plague). → aringarouma
- Given the allusions to May Day rites ("And they crowned her their chariton queen, all the maids. Of the may?") and marriages ("marritime'), this description of Anna running "arundgirond" (in a circle) but also "in a waveney lyne" and a spiral ('gire') suggests she is encircling a May Pole:
