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| − | * '''Elms | + | * '''Elms leap where ashes lay''' → '''elms leap where askes lay''' |
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
| − | * '''Elms | + | * '''Elms ... askes:''' in Norse mythology Askr (the ash tree) was the first man and Embla (the elm tree) was the first woman → Adam & Eve → [[HCE]] and [[ALP]] |
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0105&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
| − | * ''' | + | * '''Elms leap:''' elms sleep |
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| − | * ''''' | + | * '''Askes''' → a conflation of "ashes" and "oaks" → Ashes of oaks |
| − | * '''oaks ... ald ... elms ... askes''' | + | * '''salmon leap:''' a waterfall or weir which salmon ascend by leaping → Leixlip (name means "salmon leap") |
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0426&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
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| + | * '''askes:''' (''Middle English'') ashes → the Phoenix’s ashes ([[Page_4|FW 004.17]]) | ||
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| + | * '''askes lay. Phall:''' → [[ALP]] | ||
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| + | * '''oaks ... ald ... elms ... askes:''' the letters of the early Irish alphabet (and of the Ogham alphabet which preceded it) were named after trees. The Ogham alphabet was called ''beithe-luis-nin'' or ''beithe-luis'' after its first, second and fifth characters: | ||
** a = ailm (pine) | ** a = ailm (pine) | ||
** b = beithe (birch) | ** b = beithe (birch) | ||
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** t = tinne (holly) | ** t = tinne (holly) | ||
** u = úr (heather) | ** u = úr (heather) | ||
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| + | * '''oaks ... ald ... elm ... askes:''' trees are used proverbially to represent eternity; in ''Ulysses'', Gerty MacDowell muses that Edy Boardman "never had a foot like Gerty MacDowell, a five, and never would ash, oak or elm". See also Rudyard Kipling's poem ''A Tree Song'': "England shall bide Judgement tide / By oak and ash and thorn." | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:25, 29 March 2018
- Elms leap where ashes lay → elms leap where askes lay
- Elms ... askes: in Norse mythology Askr (the ash tree) was the first man and Embla (the elm tree) was the first woman → Adam & Eve → HCE and ALP
- Elms leap: elms sleep
- Askes → a conflation of "ashes" and "oaks" → Ashes of oaks
- salmon leap: a waterfall or weir which salmon ascend by leaping → Leixlip (name means "salmon leap")
- askes: (Middle English) ashes → the Phoenix’s ashes (FW 004.17)
- askes lay. Phall: → ALP
- oaks ... ald ... elms ... askes: the letters of the early Irish alphabet (and of the Ogham alphabet which preceded it) were named after trees. The Ogham alphabet was called beithe-luis-nin or beithe-luis after its first, second and fifth characters:
- a = ailm (pine)
- b = beithe (birch)
- c = coll (hazel)
- d = dair (oak)
- e = edad (aspen)
- f = fern (alder)
- g = gort (ivy)
- h = úath (whitethorn)
- i = idad (yew)
- l = luis (rowan, mountain-ash)
- m = muin (vine)
- n = nin (ash)
- o = onn (furze, gorse)
- p = pin (pine? gooseberry? rowan?)
- r = ruis (elder)
- s = sail (willow)
- t = tinne (holly)
- u = úr (heather)
- oaks ... ald ... elm ... askes: trees are used proverbially to represent eternity; in Ulysses, Gerty MacDowell muses that Edy Boardman "never had a foot like Gerty MacDowell, a five, and never would ash, oak or elm". See also Rudyard Kipling's poem A Tree Song: "England shall bide Judgement tide / By oak and ash and thorn."
