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The Topic: Princess Eilonwy -- heritage

Someone
Your Highness, I recently noticed that your name, "Eilionwy" is very similar to "Eelionway," which is Pig Latin for "WeeLion." Does this mean that you are a member of the Pig Latin royalty, and a Princess of ... err ... Pig Rome, I guess?

Responses:
Electric Jesus
It seems that you already know the answer, my son.
Electric Jesus
So, why don't you tell us what you think the real answer is.
Someone
*sigh*
OK, fine, you made me use up five minutes of my very valuable ti... err, five minutes of my time to find the *real* origin of the name Eilonwy. It's from a series of children's fantasy literature, one book of which was adapted into the Disney movie "Black Cauldron." The name is pseudo-Welsh as detailed here:
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/eilonwy.html


Eilonwy herself is descended from an enchantress who was a princess of the Sea People of Llyr.
http://www.genkistar.com/eilonwy-info.html

I also found a nice picture of Eilonwy in a swimsuit.
http://www.umr.edu/~duy/saeilon.jpg
Which is not entirely relevant to this discussion, but interesting nonetheless.
Sifl & Olly
Anyone else get the feeling something really weird just happened here?
Someone
What, someone used the Internet to research something completely trivial, and in the process, found a picture of a young woman in a swimsuit? No, that's not weird at all.
Sifl & Olly
No, I mean that the ones doing the worthless searching weren't us!

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