Re: Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)

On 2024-03-30 06:42:35 +0000, Jeff Barnett said:

On 3/29/2024 7:41 PM, HenHanna wrote:

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  Greensleeves: Possibly a combination of "green" and "sleeves."

You're saying that "Greensleeves" did not appear in a dictionary until  after Joyce used it? That may be but the term has been around for  centuries according to folk song collectors, performers, and scholars  that I have met over the years.

"'A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves' was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationers' Company in September 1580"
1580 seems a bit before Joyce's time.
I was disappointed to learn from the Wikipedia article that Henry VIII didn't compose the music.

 In the 1950s, I was told that the song  Greensleeves, was rather misunderstood*.

-- Athel cb