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*''G'' Regenbogen: rainbow
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* '''regginbrew''' → '''regginbrow'''
*7 clauses symbolize 7 rainbow colours
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
*"At the rainbow's end are [[rory|dew]] and the colour red", letter, 15/11/26 to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]]
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* The rainbow symbol has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the great flood in the Bible that He would never again flood the world.
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* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"regginbrow = German regenbogen + rainbow; At the rainbow's end are [[rory|dew]] and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie; When all vegetation is covered by the flood there are no eyebrows on the face of the Waterworld"''
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* '''Regenbogen:''' (''German'') rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow
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* '''Genesis 9:12-16:''' the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world
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* '''reggia:''' (''Italian'') palace
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* '''regina:''' (''Latin'') queen
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* '''Regin:''' a character in Norse mythology corresponding to Mime in Wagner's operatic tetralogy ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''; in one version he is a dwarf, who raises Siegfried to kill the dragon/giant Fafnir and steal the Nibelung hoard; in another version he is Fasolt, the brother of Fafnir, and again he raises Siegfried to win back the hoard for him
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* '''brau:''' (''German'') brew
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* '''blau:''' (''German'') blue → [[L/R split]]
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* '''brow:''' eyebrow (on [[HCE|HCE's]] head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth]])
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[[Category:German phrases]]
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[[Category:rainbow]]

Latest revision as of 15:21, 5 July 2012

  • Regenbogen: (German) rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow
  • Genesis 9:12-16: the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world
  • reggia: (Italian) palace
  • regina: (Latin) queen
  • Regin: a character in Norse mythology corresponding to Mime in Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen; in one version he is a dwarf, who raises Siegfried to kill the dragon/giant Fafnir and steal the Nibelung hoard; in another version he is Fasolt, the brother of Fafnir, and again he raises Siegfried to win back the hoard for him
  • brau: (German) brew
  • brow: eyebrow (on HCE's head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of Howth)