Howe (261)

• home

• Howe: site of Norse Thingmote (parliament) in Dublin

• howe: (1) a hill (2) a tumulus, barrow → from the Old Norse haug-r (mounds), as the Scandinavian kings of Dublin were buried on the site of the Thingmote

• howe!: (interjection) (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief

• Requiem: a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Under the wide and starry sky,

Dig the grave and let me lie.

Glad did I live and gladly die,

And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:

Here he lies where he longed to be;

Home is the sailor, home from sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.