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* '''stringed argent:''' (''heraldry'') heraldic term → probably a reference to the official heraldic description of the coat of arms of the Republic of Ireland – namely, the Brian Ború harp, which is "stringed argent" (i.e. has argent/silver-colored strings) "on a field azure." → [[argent]] in the preceding line
  
Probably a reference to the official heraldic description of the coat of arms of the Republic of Ireland -- namely, the Brian Boru harp, which is "stringed argent" (i.e., has argent/silver-colored strings) "on a field azure."  The word argent is used in the line above this one.
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* '''archer:''' (''nursery rhyme'') "A was an Archer, who shot at a frog" → cf. [[Page_4|004.02]] [[Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax!]]
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* '''Charles Archer:''' a character in Sheridan Le Fanu's ''The House by the Churchyard'', a key text for FW
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0102&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''arches''' → rainbows
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* '''archers strung''' → archers stringing their bows → cf. Odysseus → ''[[Ulysses]]''
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* '''Strongbow:''' Richard de Clare, the Earl of Pembroke, leader of the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland in 1169
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0361&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''Apollo:''' Greek god of archery (also of music, poetry, prophecy and healing), often identified with Helios the Sun god → [[helio]] in this line

Latest revision as of 02:32, 12 November 2010

  • stringed argent: (heraldry) heraldic term → probably a reference to the official heraldic description of the coat of arms of the Republic of Ireland – namely, the Brian Ború harp, which is "stringed argent" (i.e. has argent/silver-colored strings) "on a field azure." → argent in the preceding line
  • arches → rainbows
  • archers strung → archers stringing their bows → cf. Odysseus → Ulysses
  • Apollo: Greek god of archery (also of music, poetry, prophecy and healing), often identified with Helios the Sun god → helio in this line