Difference between revisions of "Microbirg"
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130295&q1=Castleknock A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130295&q1=Castleknock A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130421&q1=Knockmaroon A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130421&q1=Knockmaroon A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
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| + | * '''birg''' (from German "bergen") save, salvage, hide | ||
Latest revision as of 15:21, 28 June 2017
- micro-: a prefix denoting small, tiny, short
- Berg: (German) mountain → Castleknock Hill & Windmill Hill, or Castleknock Hill & Knockmaroon Hill, which represent the two feet of HCE in his guise as Finn MacCool interred in the Irish landscape with his head beneath Howth Head
- birg (from German "bergen") save, salvage, hide
