Verdons

• Treaty of Verdun: treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → Baddelaries (004.03)

• 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

• F verdun: a type of lance or long sword once made in Verdun, France → also known as épée de verdun → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)

• 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 → Malachus Micgranes and John 18.10
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Verlaine: French poet → Baddelaries and Malachus Micgranes