Albion
Sign in to saveupright=1.4|thumb|The White Cliffs of Dover may have given rise to the name Albion. Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. Today the term is only used poetically.
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- Etymology
- Attestation
- {{anchor|In myth}}The giants of Albion
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Prose ''Merlin''
- {{anchor|Des grantz geanz}}Anglo-Norman Albina story
- Manuscripts and forms
- Diocletian's daughters
- Later treatment of the myth
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Albina story
- Studies
upright=1.4|thumb|The White Cliffs of Dover may have given rise to the name Albion. Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. Today the term is only used poetically.
The name for Scotland in most of the Celtic languages is related to Albion: in Scottish Gaelic, (genitive ) in Irish, in Manx and in Welsh and Cornish. These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland.