Difference between revisions of "Moyles"

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** swanchen → ''German'' '''Schwänchen''': little swan
 
** swanchen → ''German'' '''Schwänchen''': little swan
  
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[[Category: Songs and lyrics]]
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[[Category: German phrases]
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[[Category: Birds]]
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[[Category: Thomas Moore]]

Latest revision as of 15:16, 19 January 2014

  • References the song Silent, O Moyle by Thomas Moore in the lines on Page 548:

    ... and I wound around my swanchen's neckplace a school of shells of moyles marine to swing their saysangs in her silents...

  • In the song, a girl is turned into a swan by her stepmother Aoife
    • swanchen → German Schwänchen: little swan

[[Category: German phrases]