Back to it, my friends!

Do I include numbers? I will have to think on that later. Yet here is a number in a poem, so away we go. Please do reply with words for the number 15 in any language you’d care to. This morning, I have learned more about the number fifteen — and ways of talking about numbers — than I can easily handle on only two sips of coffee. Therefore, I leave you with coig-deug in Gàidhlig and commend you to your days.

The word clusters into chapters six and seven and I am startled that it didn’t come up in Chapter One when discussing the number of the party. Hmmm.

• 6.074 Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
• 7.002 as off rose fifteen great birds from the mountain’s side.
• 7.009 and his fifteen chieftains golden collars
• 7.084 Fifteen birds
• 7.085 Twelve isn’t fifteen
• 7.088 Well, now there are fifteen of you;
• 7.088 Now he had got fifteen strangers sitting