Baddelaries

• badelaire: (French) a type of sword
  • "Badelaire, a manière d'espée à un dos et un tranchant large et courbant en croissant vers la pointe ainsi que le cimeterre des Turcs". ("Badelaire, a type of sword, double- and wide-edged, bending and widening towards the tip the same way as Turkish scimitar".
    • Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 70 (Paris 1922)

• Baudelaire: French poet Charles Baudelaire ("Charles" the "great" Frenchman → Charlemagne – see Commentary below)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• battle-Aries: the sign Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet and god of war → battering-ram (Aries, the ram)

• badelar: a type of sword; a scimitar

• baddelaries → baddies armed with badelars!

Commentary

Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling

Here, there are several references to Charlemagne and the battles that ultimately shaped Europe. See separate annotations for details.