Albina
ancestor earth Anglo-Norman single tradition · 1
Albina is the eldest of thirty daughters of a Greek king who conspired with her sisters to murder their husbands due to resentment of marital subjugation. After being exiled to an uninhabited island, she and her sisters were seduced by incubi and gave birth to a race of giants. The island was named Albion after her, and her giant offspring are identified as those encountered by Brutus in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.
When
- First attested
- 1280 CE
- Attested period
- 1280 – 2020
- Historical notes
- First mentioned in the Anglo-Norman poem Des Grantz Geanz, dated to late 13th or early 14th century, tentatively no later than 1333.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Venus
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“A Collection of the Chronicles and ancient Histories of Great Britain, now called England, by John de Wavrin, translated by Will. Hardy: From Albina to A.D. 688.”
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