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"Where the Baddelaries partisans are still
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* ''Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling'': Here, there are several references to Charlemagne and the battles that established early (and late) Europe. (See separate annotations for details.)
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out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata- 
 
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pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie
 
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Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear!
 
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Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling"
 
  
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Here, there are references to Charlemagne and the battles that established early (and late) Europe:
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* Baddelaries: French poet Charles Baudelaire ("Charles" the "great" Frenchman → Charlemagne)
  
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Baddelaries = Baudelaire (i.e., a pun on the poet, "Charles" the "great" Frenchman) = battle-Aries (the sign Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet/god of war) = battering-ram (Aries the ram)
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* battle-Aries: the sign Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet and god of war; battering-ram (Aries, the ram)
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a "partisan" is not only a fighter in a battle but also a later version of the battering ram
 
  
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Malachus Micgranes may be a pun on Carolus Magnus, or anagram of Charlemagne
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* ''F'' badelaire: a type of sword → Lazare Sainéan, ''La Langue de Rabelais'' (Paris 1922)
  
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Verdons = Verdun = Treaty of Verdun (divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843) = Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest battles of World War I (1916), between the French and the Germans (Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany)
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* badelar: a type of sword; a scimitar
  
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catapelting = catapult + pelting
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* baddies armed with badelars
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camibalistics = cannibal + ballistics (and reference to cannon-ball)
 
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Sod's brood = 'sblood (by God's blood, an oath) = commoners/peasants? (sod = earth, brood = children = children of the earth)
 
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Sanglorians = blood (sangus) + Angles (invaders of England) + Aryans (invading northern tribes); = sans glory (without glory)
 
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Assiegates = Assegai (African type of spear) ostrogoths? Austria-gates?
 
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boomeringstroms = boomerangs (+ booming storms)?
 
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arms = weapons; larms = alarums = calls to arms; appalling = rendering  bloodless (appall = lose pallor, become pale)
 

Revision as of 10:13, 15 June 2006

  • Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling: Here, there are several references to Charlemagne and the battles that established early (and late) Europe. (See separate annotations for details.)
  • Baddelaries: French poet Charles Baudelaire ("Charles" the "great" Frenchman → Charlemagne)
  • battle-Aries: the sign Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet and god of war; battering-ram (Aries, the ram)
  • F badelaire: a type of sword → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
  • badelar: a type of sword; a scimitar
  • baddies armed with badelars
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