See the story of Bran in the Mabinogion where, in the story of ‘Branwen Daughter of Llyr’, Bran’s head went on talking and prophesying for eighty years and was finally buried in the White Mound at Trinovantum (London).
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Britain was often called the White Island, or the Island of the Mighty, or Albion, in the ancient stories. The Greeks called it the Pretanic Isles. But Bladud, looking back, would have seen the famous white chalk cliffs of the southern coast and would no doubt at this moment have thought of it as the White Island.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 8: LEAVING HOMETrinity. The ancient Celts had a special regard for trinity, and the mystical number of three-times-three permeates Celtic mythology and art. Diogenes Laertius (c.3/2 century BC) specifically mentions that the druids tau
