Afallach
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According to one Welsh tradition, Afallach was the father of Modron. The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae associate him with the Insula Avalonsis (Island of Avalon), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall (modern Welsh afal "apple",[1] cf. Proto-Celtic *aballo- "apple"[2]); from which, granted, the name of Avalon is also often thought to derive, so that the meaning of "Afallach" is associated but not necessarily directly.
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- ^ Bernhard Maier, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture (trans. Cyril Edwards, The Boydell Press, 1997).
- ^ Proto-Celtic—English lexicon and English—Proto-Celtic lexicon. University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. (See also this page for background and disclaimers.) Cf. also the University of Leiden database.
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