Dormont

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  • dormant: sleeping → HCE as the innkeeper asleep in bed and as Finn MacCool interred in the Irish landscape with his head beneath Howth Head and his feet in Castleknock and Knockmaroon → in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver is first discovered by the Lilliputians sleeping on the shore
  • mont: (French) mountain → HCE, who is frequently identified throughout FW with hills and mountains → in Gulliver's Travels, the Lilliputians call Gulliver Great Man Mountain (quinbus Flestrin)
  • mont d'or (French) mountain of gold
  • Stormont: the seat of the government of Northern Ireland in Belfast.