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| − | + | * '''rann:''' J. Campbell and H.M. Robinson, ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'': <br> | |
"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..."<br> | "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..."<br> | ||
| − | " | + | * '''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." |
Revision as of 13:34, 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."
