Women in English myths and folk traditions (2)

The women who ruled Britain

So, in the beginning, the old stories say, there was Albinia. The woman who ‘founded’ Britain, and gave it her name. Whoever knew. I was fifty before I heard that story, and I’m a lover of myth and have worked with folklore for decades. Albinia who gave birth to the race of giants which populated Britain, and who linger in so much folklore, especially i…