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German: Lieber Arthur. Wir siegen! Wie geht's deiner Frau? Hochachtung: Dear Arthur. We win! How's your wife? yours faithfully
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* '''Lieber Arthur. Wir siegen! Wie geht's deiner kleinen Frau? Hochachtung:''' (''German'') Dear Arthur. We conquer! How's your little wife? Yours faithfully
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* '''liberator''' → the Liberator was a nickname for Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Catholic statesman whose election to the House of Commons forced the Duke of Wellington – the then Prime Minister of Great Britain – to introduce Catholic Emancipation in 1829
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160298&q1=Liberator Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipation Wikipedia]
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* '''leaper''' → [[HCE]] as the salmon of knowledge in Irish mythology; ''salmon'' means "leaper"
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160341&q1=salmon Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''Orthez:''' a town in southwestern France → the Battle of Orthez, 27 February 1814, in which Wellington defeated Soult
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130481&isize=M A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Thor:''' Nordic god of thunder → [[Vico]]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160369&q1=Thor Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''versiegen:''' (''German'') to dry up → [[irrigate]] → the abating of the Flood which ends FW → the drying up of the battlefield at Waterloo following the early-morning rain which crucially delayed the start of the battle
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* '''fear'''
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* '''fear:''' (''Irish'') man
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* '''sicken'''
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* '''fieldglass:''' a binocular telescope for use in the field
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* '''frow:''' (1) a Dutchwoman; (2) a woman, lady, wife, especially a Dutch or German one; (3) applied to the Maenads or Bacchantes of paganism; (4) (''dialect'') an idle, dirty woman
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* '''hoogachtend:''' (''Dutch'') yours faithfully
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* '''Hougoumont:''' a chateau near Waterloo which the British occupied
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130584&q1=Hougomont A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Hugo:''' Victor Hugo, the French novelist who included a lengthy discussion of Waterloo in ''Les Miserables''
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[[Category:battles]]
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[[Category: German phrases]]

Latest revision as of 13:33, 29 June 2012

  • Lieber Arthur. Wir siegen! Wie geht's deiner kleinen Frau? Hochachtung: (German) Dear Arthur. We conquer! How's your little wife? Yours faithfully
  • liberator → the Liberator was a nickname for Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Catholic statesman whose election to the House of Commons forced the Duke of Wellington – the then Prime Minister of Great Britain – to introduce Catholic Emancipation in 1829
  • Orthez: a town in southwestern France → the Battle of Orthez, 27 February 1814, in which Wellington defeated Soult
  • versiegen: (German) to dry up → irrigate → the abating of the Flood which ends FW → the drying up of the battlefield at Waterloo following the early-morning rain which crucially delayed the start of the battle
  • fear
  • fear: (Irish) man
  • sicken
  • fieldglass: a binocular telescope for use in the field
  • frow: (1) a Dutchwoman; (2) a woman, lady, wife, especially a Dutch or German one; (3) applied to the Maenads or Bacchantes of paganism; (4) (dialect) an idle, dirty woman
  • hoogachtend: (Dutch) yours faithfully
  • Hugo: Victor Hugo, the French novelist who included a lengthy discussion of Waterloo in Les Miserables
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