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“The name Albion echoes down to us from our most distant ancestors, through myths and legends, symbols and songs, carrying memories of an older Britain. Albion is both a landscape and a dreamscape; the site of our hopes, dreams and fantasies about the nation. For many it evokes a romantic vision of the British past, often pre-industrial and pre-colonial; a time ‘before’, free from the conflicts and complications of the modern age. I see it as an alternative spirit of Britain; a genius loci, or ‘spirit of place’, which is both subversive and strange, shrouded in magic and mystery, and which leaves traces in the land, and all through our culture, if only we know where to look.”
― Zakia Sewell, Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain