Anna Rayiny

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  • rain → torrential rain in the morning delayed the battle of Waterloo (recounted at FW 008.09 - FW 010.23), ensuring Napoleon’s defeat → like Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, FW ends with a flood, which not only accounts for the allusions to Noah's rainbow in the opening chapter, but also explains why the ground is still wet the following morning
  • I abha, abhainn: river → the Irish Abhainn Life ("River Liffey") was Anglicized as Annie Liffey, personifying the river