Albion is the oldest known name of the island of
Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island. The name for
Scotland in the Celtic languages is related to Albion:
Alba in
Scottish Gaelic,
Alba (genitive
Alban, dative
Albain) in
Irish,
Nalbin in
Manx and
Alban in
Welsh,
Cornish and
Breton. These names were later
Latinised as
Albania and
Anglicised as
Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland.