THE ALBION

Albion is an alternative name for the island of Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. It is sometimes used poetically to refer to the island, but has fallen out of common use in English.  is an alternative name for the island of Britain

Brutus! there lies beyond the Gallic bounds
An island which the western sea surrounds,
By giants once possessed, now few remain
To bar thy entrance, or obstruct thy reign.
To reach that happy shore thy sails employ
There fate decrees to raise a second Troy
And found an empire in thy royal line,
Which time shall ne'er destroy, nor bounds confine.
— Geoffrey of Monmouth