Annotated Finnegans Wake (with Wakepedia): p30

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

FW 2.1a --HCE's name--

Iris Tree by Modigliani

Iris Tree: English poet, actress and artists' model 1897-1968 [wiki]
fw1 has "Trees"

in the Aeniad, Juno sends Iris to free Dido

freesias

since both names end with 's' they may each be plural 'types'
the temptresses as a duo are mostly absent from ch1, so this forbearance is more forwardlooking than back

green/orange

song Orange Lily, O ♬
why Lili?

organs?

concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimpden's occupational agnomen

weird parallels emphasizing how the Guinness brewery was often called a 'concern':
fw99: "Elsewere there here no concern of the Guinnesses."
fw126: "for the concern of Messrs Jhon Jhamieson and Song"
fw309: "It may not or maybe a no concern of the Guinnesses but."

"Harold" is not widely reused
he's a hunchback?

Chimpden/chimp [fweet-8]
he's apelike?

occupational: he catches earwigs as part of his profession?

agnomen: an additional name or nickname, generally on account of some exploit

(we are back in the presurnames prodromarith period, of course,

presurnames period: a period in Irish history (before the 10thC) when men bore essentially one name, usually composed of two yoked elements (e.g. Conchobhar, 'high-will'), sometimes complemented by a patronymic ('Mac' plus genitive of father's name) or an agnomen

proDROMarith
like predominant

artificial Greek: pro-drom-arithmos: what comes before numbers (from Greek prodromos: forerunner; dromos: road; arithmos: number)

-ith is rare in English, -eth more common

pre-christian period of Irish history?
(what timeframe does "period" imply?)

just when enos chalked halltraps)

why "just"? only, exactly, coincidentally?

ech

Enos: son of Seth (Genesis 5:6), regarded by kabbalists as a greater magician than any before him (why no cap?)
Hebrew enosh: man
plural of eno?

U616 mentions the superstition that you can trap a rooster by drawing a chalk circle around it (cf earwigging??)

wrote graffiti in chalk
slang chalk: to slash, to scratch

traps in the hall, created with chalk, or marked as warning?

hilltops
trapdoors

cf? U411: "You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander"

and discarding once for all those theories from older sources

"once for all" as a phrase usually refers to Jesus [ngram]
once and for all
all for one and one for all

VI.B3.158: 'from older sources'
Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 29: 'an Irish historical tract, written about 721 A. D., and copied from older sources, gives the definite Gaelic monarchy as beginning contemporaneously with Alexander the Great in the fourthC B. C.'

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FW 2.1b --discarded theories--

2.1a: Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Frees and Lili O'Rangans)...
2.1b: which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues...
2.1c: We are told how in the beginning it came to pass that, like cabbaging...
2.1d: Forgetful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch, Humphrey...
2.1e: On his majesty, who was, or often feigned to be, noticeably longsighted...
2.1f: Our sailor king, who was draining a gugglet of obvious adamale...
2.1g: turned towards two of his retinue of gallowglasses, Michael, etheling lord...
2.1h: (in either case a triptychal religious family symbolising puritas of doctrina...
2.1i: For he kinned Jom Pill with his court so gray and his haunts in his house...

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FDV: "the most authentic version has it that" →
"which would link him either with the Glues & Gravys & Earwickers of Sidleham {in the hundred of manhood} or proclaim him a descendant of vikings who had settled in Herwick (?) or Erwick (?) the most authentic version has it that it was this way." →
4DV: "which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the Gravys, the Northeasts, the Ankers and the Earwickers of Sidlesham in the hundred of manhood or proclaim him a descendant of vikings who had founded or settled in Herrick or Eric the best authenticated version has it that it was this way."

which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors

link/pivot = mechanism motif?

"with" not 'to'?

VI.B3.92: 'pivotal ancestor'
Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 141: 'Cormac, the descendent of Lethain. He was of the line of Olliol Olum, King of Munster and pivotal ancestor of its nobility'

as the Glues, the Gravys, the Northeasts, the Ankers

A Pictorial & Descriptive Guide to Bognor &c. Chichester 54: 'Sidlesham Church is an Early English structure worthy of notice, and an examination of the surrounding tombstones should not be omitted if any interest is felt in deciphering curious names, striking examples being Earwicker, Glue, Gravy, Boniface, Anker, and Northeast' (Sidlesham is in the Hundred of Manhood, the extreme southwestern Hundred (county division) of Sussex; Joyce stayed in Bognor, a few miles from there, in summer 1923)

(cf sending old horse 'to glue factory'?)

and the Earwickers of Sidlesham in the Hundred of Manhood

German erwecken: to rouse, to raise from the dead

A Pictorial & Descriptive Guide to Bognor &c. Chichester 54: 'From Chichester to Selsey Hill runs a light railway called the Hundred of Manhood and Selsey Tramway'

or proclaim him offsprout of vikings who had founded wapentake

offspring
offshoot

Joyce doesn't normally capitalise 'viking'

'Wapentake' of some English counties corresponds to 'Hundred' of others

and seddled hem in Herrick or Eric,

settled
Siddlesham (misspelling of Sidlesham??)

archaic hem: them
Dutch hem: him

longshot: Herrick: the maiden name of Swift's mother (F. Elrington Ball: The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., vol. I, 37 (1910): 'the name is spelt variously Herrick and Erick') cf fw55 "that once grand old elrington bawl"

the old 'correct' pronunciation of the name Earwicker is 'Erricker'

the best authenticated version, the Dumlat,

Talmud (backwards: fweet-44): Hebrew commentary on the Pentateuch (Hebrew is written from right to left)

read the Reading of Hofed-ben-Edar, has it that it was this way.

Dutch hoofd: head

(a parody of a rabbi's name)

Hebrew ben: son of

Irish Binn Éadair: Howth Head

VI.B10.96: 'it's this way'

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