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A variety of Iernē (Ireland). Pliny says the Irish mothers feed their babes with swords instead of spoons.
“While in Hibernia’s fields the labouring swain,
Shall pass the plough oʹer skulls of warriors slain,
And turn up bones and broken spears,
Amazed, heʹll show his fellows of the plain
The relics of victorious years,
And tell how swift thy arms that kingdom did regain.”
Hughes: House of Nassau.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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