Difference between revisions of "There is but young gleve"
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130373&q1=Globe A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130373&q1=Globe A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
| − | * '''gleve:''' a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve | + | * '''gleve (glaive):''' a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve |
* '''claidheamh:''' (''Irish'') a sword (pronounced ''cleeve'') | * '''claidheamh:''' (''Irish'') a sword (pronounced ''cleeve'') | ||
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* '''young gleve:''' a possible mistranscription of Joyce's '''young glebe'''; in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''one globe''' | * '''young gleve:''' a possible mistranscription of Joyce's '''young glebe'''; in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''one globe''' | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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| + | * '''glebe:''' land, earth, soil → dry land appears after the deluge which ends FW | ||
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| + | *'''young love:''' perhaps ironic comparison with grieve? | ||
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| + | *'''grieve:''' from gleve by way of the [[L/R split]] | ||
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| + | *'''Eve''' | ||
Latest revision as of 05:12, 10 September 2010
- There is but one God: the first half of the Islamic shahadah, or profession of faith → it forms part of the daily prayers (salat) which devout Muslims are obliged to recite five times a day
- Glaube: (German) faith, belief
- Globe: the Globe Theatre, one of London's Bankside theatres, in which several of Shakespeare's plays were premiered
- gleve (glaive): a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve
- claidheamh: (Irish) a sword (pronounced cleeve)
- young gleve: a possible mistranscription of Joyce's young glebe; in the first draft Joyce wrote, one globe
- glebe: land, earth, soil → dry land appears after the deluge which ends FW
- young love: perhaps ironic comparison with grieve?
- grieve: from gleve by way of the L/R split
- Eve
