Verdons

• verdun: (French) a type of lance or long sword once made in Verdun, France → also known as épée de verdun
  • "Verdun, épée longue et étroite, proprement épée de Verdun, ville de tout temps renommée pour ses fabriques de lames d'acier.". ("Verdun, long narrow sword, more properly, sword of Verdun, a town ever renowned for its manufacturing of steel blades").
    • Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 70 (Paris 1922)

• Verdun: a city in northeast France
  • Once Verdun was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. "The people of Verdun, however, according to Liutprand, carried their barbarity yet farther. They sold to the Arabs of Spain a large number of young men whom they emasculated, with the view of qualifying them to act as the guardians of eastern seraglios."[1] See also Camibalistics, Whoyteboyce
    • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
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    • The New monthly magazine and Literary Journal, 1829, Part II, p. 459

• Treaty of Verdun: treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → see Baddelaries for further commentary
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• Battle of Verdun: the longest and second bloodiest battle of World War I, it was fought in 1916 between the French and the Germans → Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany
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• Vernon: Anglo-Irish family who claim to have Brian Ború’s sword

• Admiral Edward Vernon: British admiral who captured Porto Bello in Darien in 1739 during the War of Jenkins’ Ear → see Malachus Micgranes and John 18.10 for another allusion to an ear
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• Verlaine: French poet → see Baddelaries and Malachus Micgranes for two other French poets