FW1.68q --Jarl's costume--

1.68a: It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld, when Adam was delvin...
1.68b: and Jarl van Hoother had his burnt head high up in his lamphouse, laying cold hands on himself...
1.68c: And, be dermot, who come to the keep of his inn only the niece-of-his-in-law, the prankquean...
1.68d: And spoke she to the dour in her petty perusienne: Mark the Wans, why do I am alook alike...
1.68e: And Jarl van Hoother warlessed after her with soft dovesgall: Stop deef stop come back to my earin...
1.68f: And the prankquean went for her forty years' walk in Tourlemonde and she washed the blessings...
1.68g: So then she started to rain and to rain and, be redtom, she was back again at Jarl van Hoother's...
1.68h: And Jarl von Hoother had his baretholobruised heels drowned in his cellarmalt, shaking warm hands...
1.68i: And the prankquean nipped a paly one and lit up again and redcocks flew flackering from the hillcombs...
1.68k: So her madesty a forethought set down a jiminy and took up a jiminy and all the lilipath ways...
1.68l: And there was a wild old grannewwail that laurency night of starshootings somewhere in Erio...
1.68m: So then she started raining, raining, and in a pair of changers, be dom ter, she was back again...
1.68n: And Jarl von Hoother had his hurricane hips up to his pantrybox, ruminating in his holdfour stomachs...
1.68o: And the prankquean picked a blank and lit out and the valleys lay twinkling. And she made her wittest...
1.68p: For like the campbells acoming with a fork lance of lightning, Jarl von Hoother Boanerges himself...
1.68q: in his broadginger hat and his civic chollar and his allabuff hemmed and his bullbraggin soxangloves...
1.68r: And he clopped his rude hand to his eacy hitch and he ordurd and his thick spch spck for her to shut...
1.68s: And they all drank free. For one man in his armour was a fat match always for any girls under shurts...
1.68t: Saw fore shalt thou sea. Betoun ye and be. The prankquean was to hold her dummyship and the jimminies...


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FDV: "yellow green blue red orange violet in his allbuffshirt like a redwary orangeman in his violet indigonation {by the whole length of the strength of his bowman's bill}." →
"yellow green blue red orange violet in his broadginger his civic chollar & allbuffshirt like a redyellan orangeman in his violet indigonation to the whole longth of the strongth of his bowman's bill."



in his broadginger hat and his civic chollar

7 items of clothing

Brobdingnag: a land of giant people in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
gingerbread

civic crown: a garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed in Roman times upon one that had saved the life of a fellow-citizen in war

collar
choler: bile, anger


and his allabuff hemmed and his bullbraggin soxangloves

FDV: "allbuffshirt"
all-but
in the buff = naked
buff = yellow-brown color

German Hemd: Dutch hemd: shirt

Balbriggan, County Dublin: the site of unsuccessful cotton industry in the 18thC

socks and gloves

Anglo-Saxon
foxglove?


and his ladbroke breeks and his cattegut bandolair

Ragnar Lodbrok, Viking chief, was said to have had snakeproof pants

Dialect breeks: breeches, trousers

catgut: dried sheep intestines (used for the strings of musical instruments)
Kattegat: sea between Denmark and Sweden

bandoleer: a type of shoulder-belt with loops for holding musket-cartridges


and his furframed panuncular cumbottes

far-famed
framed with fur

The Peninsular War
Latin panuncula = 'the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle'

Roman loom?

combats
gumboots (i.e. Wellingtons)
French bottes: boots


like a rudd yellan gruebleen orangeman in his violet indigonation,

7 colors of rainbow

ruddy
rudd: a kind of fish, also known as the red-eye 
rude yelling

yella: (Anglo-Irish) yellow; Orange, Loyalist, Unionist

blue-green (spoonerism)
grüblend: (German) worried

Orangeman: a member of the secret Association of Orangemen, a society for the maintenance of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland

violent indignation


to the whole longth of the strongth of his bowman's bill.

length

strength

Strongbow: leader of the Anglo-Normans who invaded Ireland in the 12thC
Odysseus is recognized when he alone has the strength to string his own bow

Isa Bowman: friend of Lewis Carroll

bill of cap
workman's bill for job

bill

(would archers really ever carry bills, too?)



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