1.30b: It is slaking nuncheon out of some thing's brain pan. Me seemeth a dragon man. He is almonthst...
1.30c: What a quhare soort of a mahan. It is evident the michindaddy. Lets we overstep his fire defences...
1.30d: Come on, fool porterfull, hosiered women blown monk sewer? Scuse us, chorley guy! You tollerday...
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synopsis: Mutt meets Jute — Mutt attempts to address him
FDV: "Excuse us, Lictor. Can you direct one to the [...] Scuse me, guy. Who is this Forshapen like a pigmayde hoagshead." →
"...This kerl on the kopje who the joebiggar be he? Forshapen like a pigmayde hoagshead."
'lictor' = official who punishes
lector = reader
the narrator espies a stranger, describing him to the reader?
In the name of Anem this carl on the kopje
Irish 'ainm' = name
Amun = Egyptian king of the gods
Adam
(why AnEm?)
German Kerl: man, guy (FDV: had FW462's "Dave the Dancekerl" replaced "Dave the Dancer" yet?)
archaic 'carl' = churl, rude fellow, man
Ireland had 39 'Carl's in 1901, mostly protestant
CUPyeh
VI.B6.73: 'hophare bacontree kopje' Jespersen, Growth and Structure of the English Language 'the Dutch... in South Africa... applied... kopje 'a little head or cup' to the hills' (from Afrikaans)
in pelted thongs a parth a lone who the joebiggar be he?
animal pelt
pelted with missiles/stones
thong = leather strip (too narrow to wear?)
thongs could hold a pelt together, but wouldn't that be a 'thonged pelt'?
apart, alone
a path alone
Parthalón: legendary first settler of Ireland after the Flood
Joseph Biggar: hunchbacked supporter of Parnell [wiki]
cf U129 (Lenehan) "I can't see the Joe Miller. Can you?"
who the devil
Jupiter?
bugger
Forshapen his pigmaid hoagshead,
dialect: 'forshapen' = transformed, misshapen (cf Swedish 'förskapa' = to cut out)
shaped before, earlier?
forehead (presumably low)
pigmy
pig iron
pig, hog
made
cf milkmaid
hogshead = 50 to 100 gallons, barrel
why hoAg?
shroonk his plodsfoot.
shrunk (why small feet?)
mushroom?
German Plattfuß: flat foot
plod
He hath locktoes, this shortshins,
prehensile feet, eg for climbing trees?
cf above "the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill"
and, Obeold that's pectoral,
Obeah = voodoo
o, by all that's
behold
obey
old
obi = Japanese girdle
pectoral muscles: of the chest
spectral?
his mammamuscles! Most mousterious!
mammary?
Mousterian man: Neanderthal man
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