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• G Regenbogen: rainbow

• 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize 7 rainbow colours

• "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red": Joyce, letter, 15/11/26, to Harriet Shaw Weaver

• The rainbow symbol has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the great flood in the Bible that He would never again flood the world.

• It reggia: palace

• L regina: queen

• Regin: a character in Norse mythology corresponding to Mime in Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen; in one version he is a dwarf, who raises Siegfried to kill the dragon/giant Fafnir and steal the Nibelung hoard; in another version he is Fasolt, the brother of Fafnir, and again he raises Siegfried to win back the hoard for him.

• G brau: brew

• G blau: blue (L/R split)

• brow: eyebrow (on HCE's head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of Howth)