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from J. Campbell and H.M. Robinson, ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'': "'The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze'. A traditional song sung on St. Stephen's day, when a wren is killed and carried about the town on a stick."
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* '''rann:''' J. Campbell and H.M. Robinson, ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'': "A rann is an ancient Celtic verse form. There are many stories of Irish poets who revenged themselves against ungenerous or brutal kings by composing satires against them..."
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* '''wren:''' "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze'. A traditional song sung on St. Stephen's day, when a wren is killed and carried about the town on a stick." See ''Ulysses'' 481 (8-15)
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Latest revision as of 13:39, 18 June 2013

  • rann: J. Campbell and H.M. Robinson, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: "A rann is an ancient Celtic verse form. There are many stories of Irish poets who revenged themselves against ungenerous or brutal kings by composing satires against them..."
  • wren: "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze'. A traditional song sung on St. Stephen's day, when a wren is killed and carried about the town on a stick." See Ulysses 481 (8-15)