Ringsome

• ringsun → ringsome
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "ringsome = German ringsum, around"

• Ring-like

• ringsum: (German) around → Rings um are the first two words of Theodor Mommsen's monumental History of Rome

• Links um! (German military command) left turn!, left face!

• Der Ring des Nibelungen: (German) The Ring of the Nibelung, an operatic tetralogy by Richard Wagner