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
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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
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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