Alauna

Alauna is the feminine form of the Gaulish god Alaunus or (possibly^[1]) an unrelated Celtic river goddess in her own right.

It appeared as the Latinized form of various placenames in Celtic Europe:

Places

France

• Alauna or Alaunia, the Roman settlement at Valognes in Normandy
• Alauna or Alaunus, the Roman name of the River Aulne in Brittany

England

• Alauna, Alavana, Alona, or Alunna, generally identified with the Roman fort at Watercrook near Kendal in Cumbria
• Alauna Carvetiorum, the Roman settlement at Maryport in Cumbria
• Alauna, the Roman settlement at Alcester in Warwickshire
• The River Aln, sometimes identified with the Alauna or Alaunos River in Ptolemy's Geography
• The Roman settlement at Learchild, sometimes identified with the Alauna in Ptolemy's Geography

Scotland

• The Allan Water, sometimes identified with the Alauna or Alaunos River in Ptolemy's Geography
• Ardoch in Perthshire, sometimes identified with the Alauna in Ptolemy's Geography

See also

• Alaunus
• Alona (disambiguation)

References

1. Monaghan, P. The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore, p. 13. Facts on File (New York), 2002.