Difference between revisions of "Moyles"
From FinnegansWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
** swanchen → ''German'' '''Schwänchen''': little swan | ** swanchen → ''German'' '''Schwänchen''': little swan | ||
| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category: Songs and lyrics]] |
| + | [[Category: German phrases] | ||
| + | [[Category: Birds]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Thomas Moore]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:16, 19 January 2014
- References the song Silent, O Moyle by Thomas Moore in the lines on Page 548:
... and I wound around my swanchen's neckplace a school of shells of moyles marine to swing their saysangs in her silents...
- In the song, a girl is turned into a swan by her stepmother Aoife
- swanchen → German Schwänchen: little swan
[[Category: German phrases]
