Thing mud
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Thingmote (Thingmound): an artificial mound constructed by Vikings on what is now the intersection of Suffolk Street and Church Lane in Dublin. It was custom of the invaders to erect a stone pillar (steyne) at the point of their landing and the Thingmote (thingmót) was built beside it. It was here the Vikings "parliament" assembled and decisions affecting the customs and laws of the tribe were made
- moot: (Old English) a meeting or gathering
- Mutt
- mud: cf. the English poet James Elroy Flecker, “He spake in Greek, which Britons speak/ seldom and circumspectly/ But Mr Judd, that man of mud,/ translated in correctly” → cf. line 8 above, "But speak it allsosiftly"
