Shortlegged bergins

• Alf Bergan: a law clerk in City Hall, Dublin (on Cork Hill)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
  • Ulysses 152: "U. P: up. I'll take my oath that's Alf Bergan or Richie Goulding."

• Berge: (German) mountains

• burghers

• violins → L/R split → the first of five members of a chest of viols, continuing the musical foliation in this paragraph

• virgins

• berger: (French) shepherd

• -ín: (Irish) a diminutive suffix → Berg-ín = hill, small mountain → see heegills and collines five lines above