Britomart
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Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue. She represents English military power through a folk etymology that associated Brit-, as in Briton, with Martis.
When
- First attested
- 1500 CE
- Attested period
- 1500 – 1599
- Historical notes
- Character in Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue—in particular, English military power—through a folk etymology that associated Brit-, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as "of Mars"”
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