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  • Howe: site of Norse Thingmote (parliament) in Dublin
  • howe: (1) a hill (2) a tumulus, barrow → from the Old Norse haug-r (mounds), as the Scandinavian kings of Dublin were buried on the site of the Thingmote
  • howe!: (interjection) (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief
  • Requiem: a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.