Scraggy isthmus

• merry isthmus → scraggy isthmus
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• happy Xmas → FW 197.15: happy isthmass

• scraggy: unkempt, straggling, irregular
  • Ulysses 027.27: "His [Sargent's] tangled hair and scraggy neck..."

• craggy: full of crags or broken rocks; rough, rugged

• scragged: rough, rugged

• scrag: neck

• scraggy: thin, bony, often applied to the neck. If Howth Head is Finnegan's head then the scraggy isthmus, the isthmus of Sutton, is his neck