Editing Princess Eilonwy (section)

==Name origin==
Eilonwy is not a historical Welsh name (unlike many others used in the stories),<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Heather Rose|year=2006|url=http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/eilonwy.html|title=Concerning the Name 'Eilonwy'|publisher=Society for Creative Anachronism|access-date=October 22, 2008}}</ref> but it turns up in a tale by [[Glasynys]]—published in ''Cymru Fu'', or ''The Wales that Was'' (1862–4), and translated from the Welsh by Sir [[John Rhys]] in his ''Celtic Folklore'' (1901)—belonging to the daughter of a [[mermaid]] named Nefyn ferch Nefydd and her human lover Ifan Morgan. A poem by [[Talhaiarn]] also bears the name "Eilonwy". It may be based on the literary Welsh (''i.e.'' obsolete) word ''eilon'', meaning "deer, stag", with the fanciful suffix ''-wy'' (used in the 1800s to adorn river names) added for [[euphony]]<ref name="kimkat">{{cite web|last=Tawe|first=Ianto Glan|title=List of Welsh Forenames (A-M)|publisher= The "Cymru-Catalonia" (Wales-Catalonia) Website|date=2006-11-27|url=http://kimkat.org/amryw/1_enwau/enwau_bedydd_cymraeg_geiriadur_1_1265e.htm|access-date=2013-01-15}}</ref> (or perhaps in reference to the [[Afon Elan|river Elan]] in central Wales).