There is but young gleve
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Jump to navigationJump to search- There is but one God: the first half of the Islamic shahadah, or profession of faith → it forms part of the daily prayers (salat) which devout Muslims are obliged to recite five times a day
- Glaube: (German) faith, belief
- Globe: the Globe Theatre, one of London's Bankside theatres, in which several of Shakespeare's plays were premiered
- gleve (glaive): a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve
- claidheamh: (Irish) a sword (pronounced cleeve)
- young gleve: a possible mistranscription of Joyce's young glebe; in the first draft Joyce wrote, one globe
- glebe: land, earth, soil → dry land appears after the deluge which ends FW
- young love: perhaps ironic comparison with grieve?
- grieve: from gleve by way of the L/R split
- Eve