Albina (mythology)

When their father learns of their plot, the twenty-nine unrepentant sisters are exiled from Greece and arrive at an uninhabited island, which they name Albion after Albina.

Robert Graves' book The White Goddess picks up on this claim and describes Albina as of one of fifty sisters (see Danaïdes) who named Albion, ascribing the legend to Nennius.

[citation needed] Albina is mentioned in Charles Godfrey Leland's 1892 collection of folklore Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition.

The accounts of Albina were obtained by word of mouth from local and often illiterate peasants, some of whom were considered witches or Strega.

[9] Possibly a combination of other deities such as Alpanu and Aurora, Albina is described as a beautiful flying woman (or fairy) and associated with light.