From: "Kieran Cleary" <kcleary@nwlabs.ie>
Subject: (whorl) Fliers' names
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:56:13 +0000


[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

On another etymological note, I've been re-reading the mailing list 
archives, and someone wonders about the fliers' names. In fact 
they're Irish. Off the top of my head:

Grian: sun
Aer: air
Mear: finger
Sciathan: wing

Otherwise I'll have to check Sumaire.



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