Talk:Britannia
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The following text I have removed from the article because it is more akin to a dictionary entry and does not have direct relevance to the subject of the article beyond the etymology of the name. The text is:
Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History (4.16.102) likewise has:
- "It was itself named Albion, while all the islands about which we shall soon briefly speak were called the Britanniae".[1]
In his Geographia, Ptolemy, writing in the 2nd Century AD, uses the name "Albion".[2]
In 930, the English King Æthelstan used the title: rex et primicerius totius Albionis regni ("King and chief of the whole realm of Albion").[3] His nephew King Edgar styled himself Totius Albionis imperator augustus (August emperor of all Albion) in 970.[4]
Alfred the Great used the word bryttania.
In Old French the word was Bretaigne which became Bretagne in Modern French and Bretayne, Breteyne in Middle English. The French word replaced the Old English words, Breoton, Breoten, Bryten, Breten, Breoton-lond and Breten-lond.
References
- ↑ Pliny, the Elder; Wernerian Club; Holland, Philemon. "Pliny's Natural history. In thirty-seven books". [London] Printed for the Club by G. Barclay – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ PTOLEMY'S GEOGRAPHIA, BOOK II – DIDACTIC ANALYSIS, COMTEXT4
- ↑ England: Anglo-Saxon Royal Styles: 871–1066, Anglo-Saxon Royal Styles (9th–11th centuries), archontology.org
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
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This information might belong somewhere, probably in a section of some article dealing with the history of the name of "Britain" so I have not deleted outright. GPinkerton (talk) 12:40, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- This article is actually the article about the place name Britain. -Djsasso (talk) 12:50, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Djsasso: I don't think that's a suitable purpose for the article; it's WP:NOTDICT. I added the above comment as I was publishing an updated form of the article, so now it has the wrong name! GPinkerton (talk) 12:55, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah I was reverting the article back to the older version of the article. We edit conflicted. Give me a few to fix. -Djsasso (talk) 12:56, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- There I split the edit history of the article out to two articles. Someone back in 2012 completely changed the purpose of the article as this article was about the place name and the meaning behind the name which is why it included etymology. -Djsasso (talk) 13:04, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah I was reverting the article back to the older version of the article. We edit conflicted. Give me a few to fix. -Djsasso (talk) 12:56, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Djsasso: I don't think that's a suitable purpose for the article; it's WP:NOTDICT. I added the above comment as I was publishing an updated form of the article, so now it has the wrong name! GPinkerton (talk) 12:55, 25 February 2021 (UTC)