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Mag Breg

  • (places)
  • plains


See also: Banba
Banba
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
Banba is a designation for Ireland as a whole, though  “[o]rig. name of north Leinster = mag mBreg, hence from British compound *Banno-Magos [...] or from *ban-w-yā as a theonym” (eDIL s.v. Banba), as well as an eponymous character or personification who is said to have given her name to the island; sometimes mentioned along with two sisters, Ériu and Fódla, who did likewise.

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C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
November 2016, last updated: May 2020

Map with surrounding places (150 km radius)

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