Hillcombs
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- combe: valley
- cock’s comb
- coxcomb: (Archaic) a vain person, dandy; a fool (describing Jarl von Hoother? - note his now elevated title → von)
- flackering from the hillcombs: St Patrick's foreknowledge of the three orders of Irish saints is said to have resulted from three visions: (1) Ireland all ablaze (FW 021.16-17); (2) only the mountains on fire; (3) lamps lit in the valley (FW 022.27-28)
