Difference between revisions of "Verdons"
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| + | * '''verdun:''' (''French'') a type of lance or long sword once made in Verdun, France → also known as ''épée de verdun'' | ||
| + | ** ''"Verdun, épée longue et étroite, proprement épée de Verdun, ville de tout temps renommée pour ses fabriques de lames d'acier.". ("Verdun, long narrow sword, more properly, sword of Verdun, a town ever renowned for its manufacturing of steel blades").'' | ||
| + | *** [http://www.archive.org/stream/lalanguederabela01sain#page/70 Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 70 (Paris 1922)] | ||
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* '''Verdun:''' a city in northeast France | * '''Verdun:''' a city in northeast France | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0579& | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0579&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdun Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdun Wikipedia] | ||
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* '''Battle of Verdun:''' the longest and second bloodiest battle of World War I, it was fought in 1916 between the French and the Germans → Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany | * '''Battle of Verdun:''' the longest and second bloodiest battle of World War I, it was fought in 1916 between the French and the Germans → Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany | ||
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun Wikipedia] | ||
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* '''Vernon:''' Anglo-Irish family who claim to have Brian Ború’s sword | * '''Vernon:''' Anglo-Irish family who claim to have Brian Ború’s sword | ||
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Vernon Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Vernon Wikipedia] | ||
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear Wikipedia] | ||
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* '''Verlaine:''' French poet → see [[Baddelaries]] and [[Malachus Micgranes]] for two other French poets | * '''Verlaine:''' French poet → see [[Baddelaries]] and [[Malachus Micgranes]] for two other French poets | ||
Revision as of 13:26, 5 April 2010
- verdun: (French) a type of lance or long sword once made in Verdun, France → also known as épée de verdun
- "Verdun, épée longue et étroite, proprement épée de Verdun, ville de tout temps renommée pour ses fabriques de lames d'acier.". ("Verdun, long narrow sword, more properly, sword of Verdun, a town ever renowned for its manufacturing of steel blades").
- Verdun: a city in northeast France
- Treaty of Verdun: treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → see Baddelaries for further commentary
- Battle of Verdun: the longest and second bloodiest battle of World War I, it was fought in 1916 between the French and the Germans → Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany
- Vernon: Anglo-Irish family who claim to have Brian Ború’s sword
- Admiral Edward Vernon: British admiral who captured Porto Bello in Darien in 1739 during the War of Jenkins’ Ear → see Malachus Micgranes and John 18.10 for another allusion to an ear
- Verlaine: French poet → see Baddelaries and Malachus Micgranes for two other French poets
