British Myths & Legends: Good Short Stories: Legends that made Britain Great
By Albert Jack
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A wonderful collection of short stories recalling some of the popular British legends and heroes who, once upon a time, made Britain great.
Including;
The Story of Albion
The Rising Sun
Britannia
The Beast of Bodmin Moor
The Green Man
The Ghost of Newstead Abbey
Lord Nelson
Admiral Collingwood
Admiral Duncan
Admiral Vernon
The Three Lions
Robin Hood
Dick Turpin
Captain Kidd
and many more....
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British Myths & Legends - Albert Jack
Urban Legends (British Myths and Legends)
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The Big Book of Myths, Legends & Lies Series
(2015 eBook Edition)
Albert Jack
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Urban Legends and The Big Book of Myths, Legends & Lies
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Copyright ©December 2015 Albert Jack
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This is largely a work of fiction although the author could not resist the temptation to be creative with historical detail wherever possible. Any reference to any real life character or name used is purely coincidental, for the most part. However, some of these tales are true.
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About the Author
Albert Jack, is a writer and historian. His first book, Red Herrings and White Elephants explored the origins of well-known idioms and phrases and became an international bestseller in 2004. It was serialised by the Sunday Times and remained in their bestseller list for sixteen straight months. He followed this up with a series of bestsellers including Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep, Pop Goes the Weasel and What Caesar did for My Salad.
Fascinated by discovering the truth behind the world’s great stories, Albert has become an expert in explaining the unexplained, enriching millions of dinner table conversations and ending bar-room disputes the world over. He is now a veteran of hundreds of live television shows and thousands of radio programmes worldwide. Albert lives somewhere between Guildford in England and Cape Town in South Africa.
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This volume is part of The Big Book of Myths, Legends & Lies Series.
Great British Legends
The Story of Albion
THE DAWN OF BRITAIN
Albion is an ancient and romantic name for Britain that some believe evolved from the Latin word albus (meaning ‘white’) in reference to the famous cliffs at Dover and Seaford that greet the (seaborne) traveller from mainland Europe, providing his first view of the country.
Ancient Britain was occupied by a series of tribes who all had different names for the areas that they lived in; it was the traders and the potential invaders who needed to name the whole place, generally basing what they called it on the small amount of knowledge they had of the country.
White cliffs apart, it is equally possible that the name Albion for the British Isles could have arisen from ‘Albany– derived from the Gaelic word ‘Alba’ – the ancient name for the northern part of Scotland, later renamed Caledonia by the Romans (see The Britannia).
The name found on many a pub sign throughout Britain could derive from another source, however – classical mythology. Albion, the giant son of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, is said to have discovered the islands and ruled over them for forty-four years. According to another legend, ‘Albion’ has more female connotations.
The fifty daughters of the King of Syria all married on the same day and marked the occasion by murdering their husbands on the communal wedding night. As punishment they were all set adrift in a ship and finally ran ashore on the coast of what is now known as Britain.
Here they established a colony and each daughter, the eldest of whom was called Albia, married local natives and formed their own community of Albions, never to return to their homeland.
In 1579 Sir Francis Drake, the great Elizabethan explorer, annexed an area of land now known as California during his circumnavigation of the globe and claimed it for the Virgin Queen. He marked this discovery with a brass plaque naming the territory New Albion and this plate, it is recorded,