D’oh, I thought that JThunder was just saying that badgers were embleer. I completely missed the other reference.
For the longest time, I thought this book was about a disabled submarine.
And the Irish city of Dunleary (Dun Laoghire).
And the Discworld palace of Dunmanifestin . . . Wait . . .
It does, however, add to the mystery, that when King Darzin’s people go to war against the rabbits, and El-ahrairah makes a deal with the Black Rabbit to defeat them, they are all driven away and “That is why nobody can say what kind of animals they were or what they looked like.”
Yet we know they weren’t very different from the rabbit-people of the time. So all the kinds of animals must have been more alike than now.