Big rody ram

• an old black ram / is tupping your white ewe: Shakespeare, Othello 1.1.88-9

• ruddy: any reddish colour → the pinkness of the salmon

• rutty: in rut, sexually excited

• The Adventures of Roderick Random: a novel by Tobias Smollett, published in 1748. Roderick's unattainable love interest is Narcissa → the similarity between Smollett and smolt (a stage in the life-cycle of the salmon) may be responsible for the cluster of novels by Smollett which occurs in this paragraph

• rowdy

• rod: a fishing rod to catch the Salmon of Knowledge

• Ruaidhrí Ua Concubar: Roderick [or Rory] O’Conor, last High King of Ireland → FW 003.13-14

• ram: (Hebrew) high → High King

• Aries, the Ram: a constellation → in astrology the Sun is in Aries from 21 March to 20 April → and follows Pisces, the Fish → salmon; it is generally thought FW is set on and around 21 March, as Pisces yields to Aries