# Names, animals and meanings (E2) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Jul 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### mary whalen *29 Jul 1998, 08:19* This is Sean Whalen (prion). Elodia. Probably Elodea, a genus of water herbs in the family Hydrocharitaceae. Gelada's former mistress, so the name is probably meant to be unsavory with its swamp association. Ermine. Any weasel that gets white fur in winter, especially Mustelidae Mustela erminea. This fur is expensive. Ermine runs the most expensive hotel in Viron, which probably relates to the expensive fur of the ermine. Erne. Also ern. Any eagle, especially the white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). Erne is a commander in the civil guard. The eagle has military associations via the Romans. prion ---