Slughorn

Slughorn

Slughorn can refer to several things and one (fictional) person.

* It is an obsolete form of the word slogan, closer to its derivation from the Scots Gaelic "sluagh-ghairm" (meaning "war-cry").

* In turn this influenced the pseudo-Medieval poetry of Thomas Chatterton. For example in a poem about the Battle of Hastings he writes "some caught a slughorne and an onsett wounde" ("Battle of Hastings" ii.99), meaning "some picked up a slughorn and sounded a charge". A "slughorn" in this context appears to be some kind of trumpet. However in a footnote to another usage of the word, Chatterton defines it as "not unlike a hautboy". The Medieval English word "hautboy" is the origin of the modern word (and, presumably, thing), oboe and has never referred to any instrument comparable to a trumpet.

* Chatterton's usage inspired Robert Browning in his poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", in particular the last stanza in which the hero sees the ghosts of all those who died trying to reach the Dark Tower before him.::"I saw them and I knew them all. And yet::"Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,:::"And blew." "Child Roland to the Dark Tower came."::("Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" xxxiv.4-6).

* Horace Slughorn is a character in the "Harry Potter" series of novels by J. K. Rowling.

Sources

"The Oxford English Dictionary", second edition, prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, vol. xv, Ser-Soosy, under "slogan" and "slughorn (1)".

Thomas Chatterton, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13037/13037-8.txt "The Rowley Poems"] , "Hastings" ii.90 and footnote 15 to "Eclogue the Second", at Project Gutenberg, accessed on 12 July 2006.

Robert Browning, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16376/16376-h/16376-h.htm#page174 "Browning's Shorter Poems] , slected and edited by Franklin T. Baker, A.M., Macmillan, 1917 at Project Gutenberg, accessed on 12 July 2006.


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