ALBION (in Ptolemy 'A)wviw; Lat. Albion, Pliny 4.16[301,102) , the most ancient name of the British Islands, though generally restricted to England. The name is perhaps of Celtic origin, but the Romans took it as connected with albus,
of the Ierni and the Albiones "). So Pytheas of Massilia (4th cent. B.C.) speaks of "AAj3wv and 'Rpvrt. From the fact that there was a tribe called the Albiones on the north
of Spain in Asturia, some scholars have placed Albion in that neighbourhood (see G. F. Unger, Rhein. Mus. xxxviii., 1883, pp. 156-196). The name Albion was taken by medieval writers from Pliny and
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