Lima - the name of the capital of Peru
puck (Anglo-Irish) - box (from Irish poc: sharp, sudden blow) + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 371: (Diorruing speaking of Grainne) 'Grainne the daughter of Cormac the son of Art the son of Conn the Hundred-Fighter' (Irish: Gráinne Inghean Cormaic Mhic Airt Mhic Cuinn Céadcathach).
Widder (ger) - ram, male sheep
limousine - a (luxury) motor car with a compartment for the passengers and a separate compartment for the driver
hillman - one who frequents the hills; spec. applied to the Scottish Covenanters
minx - a pert girl, hussy; a lewd or wanton woman + Hillman Minx (small car).
Midcuart - Cormac MacArt's house, from which Diarmaid and Grania eloped (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 372).
Belgian horses (heresies)
Walloon (Fr) and Flemish - the two languages and cultures of Belgium + "This is a Prooshious gunn. This is a ffrinch. Tip." [008.10-.11]
scapular - a short cloak covering the shoulders; prescribed by the Rule of St. Benedict to be worn by monks when engaged in manual labour, and adopted by certain religious orders as a part of their ordinary costume.
bead - prayer; pl. prayers, devotions (obs.)
stump - something (e.g. a pencil, quill pen, cigar) that has been reduced by wear or consumption to a small part of its original length
Saint Hubert - patron saint of the chase (he converted to a pious life upon seeing a crucifix wedged between the antlers of a stag that he had been chasing instead of attending church) + A Was an Archer (nursery rhyme): 'H was a hunter'.
chemin de la croix (fr) - Way of the Cross + Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863) - French historical painter.
rosaire (fr) - rosary
trimming - adornment, decoration
Waterloo + Vater (ger) - father.
coconut - the nut or seed of the coco-palm; In pugilistic slang, and humorously: The human head + cucco (it) - a favourite, a pet + the Fianna, Finn's army, used to crack their enemies' skulls between their knees + Diarmuid's father killed his stepson (the son of Crocnuit, Diarmuid mother, and a commoner) by squeezing the child between his knees, because both he and Diarmuid were shown the same kind of affection from their foster-father, Angus (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 409-411).
Herr Innkeeper
daughter's
Delphin - as Mr Tindall says, one of three Dublin hotels: the Dolphin, Gresham, Royal Hibernian.
dring - to crowd, press, squeeze + ringing
gruesome + grusom undergang (Danish) - cruel perdition.
undergang = undergo - to bear, endure, sustain, suffer, go through (pain, suffering, danger, etc.) + Untergang (ger) - sinking, ruin.
Hibernian - a native of Ireland: an Irishman + Hymen - god of weddings.
knocker - one who or that which knocks; esp. one who knocks at a door in order to gain admittance + "The knock-knocking at the door sending a thrill through the pulse."
holly and mistletoe
dos (l) - dowry + dose of fruit + sod of turf.
Sauss (Swiss German) - apple sauce + Jesus + jigsaw.
stone - a measure of weight, usually equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois (18 of a hundredweight, or half a 'quarter'), but varying with different commodities from 8 to 24 pounds
vollends (ger) - entirely + Finn performed feat of running carrying twelve balls of lead (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 368).
corpus (l) - body + entis (l) - being, creature + corpus entis (l) - body of being, body of a thing.
serves + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 362: (of young Finn) 'scurvy came upon him, and therefrom he became scald-headed, whence he used to be called Demne the Bald'.
Demne - Finn's name before eating salmon of wisdom (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 359).
oom (Dutch) - uncle + and as English as they make them.
Nichte (ger) - niece + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 392: (replying to Finn asking him to loose the three bound chiefs) '"I will not," said Oisin, "for Diarmuid bound me not to loose any warrior whom he should bind"'.
Neffen (ger) - nephew
Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 374: (Grainne placing a geas on Diarmuid) '"I put thee... under the taboos of mighty druidism, if thou take me not with thee out of this household to-night"' + (eye).
gorm (gurum) (gael) - blue + Grainne first saw Diarmuid when he was playing hurley (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 375).
itch - fig. An uneasy or restless desire or hankering after something, a restless propensity to do something: usually spoken contemptuously + Eitche - wife of king Cormac MacArt (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 372).
freckle - a yellowish or light-brown spot in the skin, said to be produced by exposure to the sun and wind + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 373: (Grainne asking druid on later seeing Diarmaid) '"Who is that freckled sweet-worded man, upon whom is the curling dusky-black hair and the two red ruddy cheeks"'.
lock - one of the portions into which a head of hair, a beard, etc., naturally divides itself; a tress
fancy - capricious or arbitrary preference, individual taste, an inclination, liking
pogue (Anglo-Irish) - kiss + Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue + Diarmuid gave Grainne three kisses in the sight of Finn.
polejump + Diarmuid, eloping with Grainne, leaped out of Cormac MacArt's house, and also out of his enclosure in Clan Ricard (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 376, 382).
Sparkes, Isaac - according to Fitzpatrick, "the greatest favourite that even trod the Irish boards." Foote was an 18th-century actor.
footer - With a numeral prefixed: A person or thing whose height or length is of that number of feet; as six-footer, twenty-one-footer, etc.
hance - to raise, lift, elevate, exalt + hand off - to push off an opponent with the hand.
nancy - an effeminate man or boy, a homosexual + The Hole in the Wall, pub near Phoenix Park, was known as 'Nancy Hand's', after its hostess.
scaldhead - disease of scalp with falling of hair and pustules + scaldepande (Danish) - 'baldy' + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 362: 'scurvy came upon him, and therefrom he became scald-headed' .
monkeydoodle business - monkey business (foolish, trifling, or deceitful conduct) + Yankee Doodle (song).
birchen - of, pertaining to, or composed of birch + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 377: 'Diarmuid... settled a bed of soft rushes and of the tops of the birch under Grainne'.
quicken tree of Dubros was protected by giant who could be killed only by three strokes of his iron club → "What berries are those that Finn requires," asked Grainne, "that they cannot be got for him?" "They are these," said Diarmuid: "the Tuatha De Danann left a quicken tree in the district of Ui Fiachrach, and in all berries that grow upon that tree there are many virtues, that is, there is in every berry of them the exhilaration of wine and the satisfying of old mead; and whoever should eat three berries of that tree, had he completed a hundred years he would return to the age of thirty years. Nevertheless there is a giant hideous and foul to behold, keeping that quicken tree; every day he is at the foot of it, and every night he sleeps at the top. Moreover, he has made a desert of the district round about him ,and he cannot be slain until three terrible strokes be struck upon him with an iron club that he has, and that club is thus; it has a thick ring of iron through its end, and the ring around the giant's body; he has moreover forced an agreement with Finn and with the fian of Erin not to hunt in that district, and when Finn outlawed me and became my enemy, I got of him leave to hunt, provided that I should never meddle with the berries. And, O children of Morna," said Diarmuid, "choose ye between combat with me for my head, and going to seek the berries from the giant." (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 394-396)
nurse - to foster, tend, cherish, take care of + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 361: (Finn's nurses were his uncle) 'Fiacal mac Conchinn, and Bodball the druidess, and the Gray One of Luachar'.
skerry - a rugged insulated sea-rock or stretch of rocks, covered by the sea at high water or in stormy weather; a reef
Bodhmall (bomoul) (gael) - Deaf-slow; one of Fionn Mac Cumhail's nurses
trans. Liathluachra (gael) - Grey of Frost; one of Fionn Mac Cumhail's nurses
fistful - as much as a fist will hold, a handful
beriberi - vitamin deficiency disease + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 394: (Finn asks as a fine from the sons of his father Cumall's enemies) '"I ask but the head of a warrior, or for a fistful of the berries of the quicken tree of Dubros"' (the warrior is Diarmuid; the berries have rejuvenating powers).
missus - Used by servants (usually without article) in speaking of their mistresses + Masses for the dead + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 398: (Grainne demanding berries from Diarmuid) '"I will never lie in thy bed unless I get a portion of them... and I indeed am now heavy and pregnant, and I shall not live if I taste not those berries"'.
bran - the husk of wheat, barley, oats, or other grain, separated from the flour after grinding + Bran - Finn's dog, who warned Diarmuid of Finn's coming after him (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 378).
never say die - never consent or resign oneself to death, never give in + (advertisement).
Móralltach (Irish) - 'Very wild' + Sherlock Holmes meets Moriarty, his enemy, on precipice + Diarmaid performed feats of walking on the edge of his sword, Moralltach, suspended between two forked poles, and of balancing on a rolling barrel, causing many foreigners to die in an attempt to imitate him (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 385-387).
Rowley the Barrel - song, "Roll Out the Barrel." The principal reference, Mr Keblehem says, is to an adventure of Dermot's in which he does tricks for his enemies - keeps upright on a barrel rolling downhill, walks on the edge of a sword, Mór-alltach ('great-jointed').
longbow - the name given to the bow drawn by hand and discharging a long feathered arrow (and so distinguished from cross-bow), the national arm of England from the 14th c. till the introduction of firearms + longbowman (Slang) - liar + Strongbow - chief Anglo-Norman invader of Ireland.
Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 381: 'said Diarmuid "O ye of the lie, and of the tracking, and of the one brogue"' (to his enemies, tribe of Emain).
slick - a clever or smart person; a cheat or swindler + Sitric - name of several Viking kings of Dublin.
BLENNERCASSEL - (1) Ballyseedy House, 3 miles East of Tralee, County Kerry; built 1760 for the Blennerhasset family. Blennerville, South-West of Tralee, also named after this family. (2) Blennerhasset, a palatial house on an island in the Ohio River, US, built by Herman Blennerhasset, the Irishman mixed up in Aaron Burr's conspiracy. (3) Castle Caldwell (ruins), 6 miles North-East of Belleek, Countz Fermanagh, was built 1612 by the Blennerhassets.
Clanrickarde - famous family in Irish history, perhaps the Clanrickarde who fought Cromwell + Clann Riocaird (kloun rikard') (gael) - Progeny of Rickard; clan name assumed by Scottish family Sinclair + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 377: 'It is not told how they fared until they arrived at Doire Da Both, in the midst of Clan Ricard'.
The Wren, the Wren, The king of all birds (song) + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 365: (Finneces to Demne after the latter's burning his thumb while cooking the salmon of wisdom) '"Finn is thy name, my lad, and to thee was the salmon given to be eaten, and indeed thou art the Finn"'.
cru na chrionna (kruna khrine) (gael) - the old man's gore + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 81: Norah Creina (song) + Cruithne (Creena) - girl to whom Finn was betrothed as a young man (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 364).
thoist (hisht) (gael) - silence
soft - to mitigate or moderate, to lower or reduce the intensity of (a passion, emotion, etc.) + Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 377: 'It is not told how they fared until... Diarmuid... settled a bed of soft rushes and of the tops of the birch under Grainne'.
Merry Widow - the English name of Franz Lehár's operetta Die Lustige Witwe, first produced (in German) in Vienna, 1905, and (in English) in London, 1907, used allusively, freq. joc., of an amorous or designing widow + Mary Virgin forbid!
forbed - furbished, brushed or cleaned up
soul food (U.S. Slang) - ham hocks and greens + Friede (ger) - piece + Diarmaid left seven uncooked salmon as a token to Finn that he had not sinned with Grania (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 384).