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Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake
(1977)

V,   pp. 295-299


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 THIRD CENSUS OF FINNEGANS WAKE 295 
with Vico's (q.v.) city-builders, for he founded the city of Lisbon, once
called Olisipo or Ulysippo; and Ulysses—oman Odyssus—was St Patrick's
(q.v.) grandfather. + 123.16—with Hen, Anne, Madame Bbavatsky, Koot
Hoomi (q.q.v.); ?125.21; 130.3; + 179.26—with Dedalus (q.v.; see line
17); 196.21; +256.33 (lyssa = Greek "raging madness, raging fury' ' )—with
Nuvoletta (q.v.; I associate mad or raging little cloud, q.v., with Lucia
Joyce); 324.9; 393.28 (you lousy); 419.27 (hellas. . . is), .29; +442.9—with
Knickerbocker (q.v.; and Lisbon); ?626.34 (Illas.. .1. . .1—or "eyes").
*Una_according to Mr 0 Hehir, Irish una = "famine," personified by a woman,
typical mother of a family. A grim little lot of meanings. At 576.6 (see
Bellina) Joyce ties Uma to Anne Boleyn (q.v.; see also Bellina), for whose
sake Henry VIII (q.v.) founded the Anglican church; we may, therefore, assume
the adding on of Spenser's (q.v.) Una in The Faerie Queene, for she represents
true religion or the Anglican church. See Two? 61.1; 94.12; 212.12 (see Latenza);
267.25; 
576.6 (see Bellina); ?601.24. 
Unamuno, Miguel de (1864—1936)— Spanish writer. +61.1—with
Mona (q.v.). 
Uncle—usually a dirty word in FIN, referring to Mark of Cornwall (q.v.),
Tristan's, q.v., uncle) on to Claudius, (q.v.; Hamlet's, q.v., uncle). 
Uncrowned King—see Panmell. 
Undershaft, St Andrew—London church, 
Shaw (q.v.) hero. See St Banbara (q.v.). 
147.26—27. 
Vaast, St—introduced Christianity into Anras, ca. 500. 338.14. 
*Val from Skibereen, 2 10.18—19. 
Valdemar—sevenab noted Danish kings. 
255.16; 317.17. 
Valentine—saint whose festival is February 14, character in Two Gentlemen
of 
Verona (q.v.). The following double with 
Valentino (q.v.). 20.34; 249.4; 289.28; 
458.2. 
Valentino, Rudolph—cinematic sex sym 
V 
 Stilla—Underwood typewriters? Ben Jonson's (q.v.) Underwoods. See
Stella. 248.28; 360.15; 
526.23. 
Undine—Greek water sprite, title of a novel (1811) by de la Motte-Fouqué
in which Undine, personification of water, marries a human being, and, when
set aside for another woman, kills her husband with a kiss. 139.21; ?222.13—14;
527.23; 547.8. 
Unfru—Humphrey (q.v.). Mm 0 Hehir (390) explains this form of the name.
24.7. 
Urania—muse of astronomy, planet, Aphrodite (q.v.) as spiritual love.
171.28; 
+ 185.31—with Stella and Vanessa 
(q.v.); 413.32; + 504.24—with Oriana 
(q.v.); 583.16. 
Uranus—in Greek myth the personification of Heaven, father of Cronus
(q.v.). 
413.32. 
Urban—8 popes. Urban I was pope from 222 to 230. 154.20; 539.32. 
Uriah the Hittite—husband of Bathsheba (q.v.), sent by David (q.v.)
into the forefront of the battle and killed (2 Samuel, 11). + ? 102.7; +434.29—with
Heep (q.v.); 468.36 (hourihaard). 
*Urlouglunoor, 577.14. 
Ursula, St—leader of a band of 11,000 virgins, all martyred by Hums
near Cologne. See Bear? 471.31. 
*Ursussen, Ussur—U.S.A., U.S.S.R. (see Bear). 353.12. 
Urth—see Norms. 
Usher—one of the Liffey (q.v.) quays. 52.16, 17. 
Ussies—see Issy, Biss, Esthers. 
bob of the 1920s. He doubles with Valentine (q.v.). 
*Valkir_INalker? Valkyrie? (q.q.v.). 
99.16. 
Valkyries—Teutonic battle maidens. 
68.15; 220.5—6; +565.3—with Swan 
(q.v.). 
Valsinggiddyrex—see Vercingetorix. 281.n. 1. 
*Valtivar and Viv (Norwegian "wife"), 
331.26. 


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