Ladbroke breeks

• Ragnar Lodbrok: semi-legendary Viking chief and possibly the forebear of some of Dublin's Norse kings; he was said to have had a pair of snakeproof trousers

• Ladbrokes: British bookmakers

• breeks: (Scots) breeches, trousers → the fifth of HCE's 7 items of clothing → FW 022.34 – 023.01
  • Ulysses 006.08: "How are the secondhand breeks?"