Verdons
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- Treaty of Verdun: treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → see Baddelaries for further commentary
- 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
- verdun: (French) a type of lance or long sword once made in Verdun, France → also known as épée de verdun → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
- 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
- Verlaine: French poet → see Baddelaries and Malachus Micgranes for two other French poets
