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* '''Verdun:''' a city in northeast France | * '''Verdun:''' a city in northeast France | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0579&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | + | ** Once Verdun was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. ''"The people of Verdun, however, according to Liutprand, carried their barbarity yet farther. They sold to the Arabs of Spain a large number of young men whom they emasculated, with the view of qualifying them to act as the guardians of eastern seraglios."''[http://books.google.com/books?id=RDsaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA459] See also [[Camibalistics]], [[Whoyteboyce]] |
| − | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdun Wikipedia] | + | *** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0579&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
| + | *** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdun Wikipedia] | ||
| + | *** [http://books.google.com/books?id=RDsaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA459 The New monthly magazine and Literary Journal, 1829, Part II, p. 459] | ||
* '''Treaty of Verdun:''' treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → see [[Baddelaries]] for further commentary | * '''Treaty of Verdun:''' treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → see [[Baddelaries]] for further commentary | ||
Revision as of 15:28, 5 April 2010
- verdun: (French) a type of lance or long sword once made in Verdun, France → also known as épée de verdun
- "Verdun, épée longue et étroite, proprement épée de Verdun, ville de tout temps renommée pour ses fabriques de lames d'acier.". ("Verdun, long narrow sword, more properly, sword of Verdun, a town ever renowned for its manufacturing of steel blades").
- Verdun: a city in northeast France
- Once Verdun was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. "The people of Verdun, however, according to Liutprand, carried their barbarity yet farther. They sold to the Arabs of Spain a large number of young men whom they emasculated, with the view of qualifying them to act as the guardians of eastern seraglios."[1] See also Camibalistics, Whoyteboyce
- Treaty of Verdun: treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → see Baddelaries for further commentary
- Battle of Verdun: the longest and second bloodiest battle of World War I, it was fought in 1916 between the French and the Germans → Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany
- Vernon: Anglo-Irish family who claim to have Brian Ború’s sword
- Admiral Edward Vernon: British admiral who captured Porto Bello in Darien in 1739 during the War of Jenkins’ Ear → see Malachus Micgranes and John 18.10 for another allusion to an ear
- Verlaine: French poet → see Baddelaries and Malachus Micgranes for two other French poets
