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    Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil and several other variants, is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Irish myths described...
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    million in 2023). Hy Brasil is an island that was said to appear once every few years off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland. Hy Brasil has been drawn on...
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    Hy Brasil, also sometimes Hy-Brasil, is a heritage-listed former weekend retreat and now house located at 62 Chisholm Road, Avalon Beach, Northern Beaches...
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  • informs him that to do so he must seek the Horn Resounding in the land of Hy-Brasil. The first note blown upon the Horn will take Erik and his crew to Asgard...
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    of the English colour "dun" (greyish brown). Danu (Irish goddess) Dôn Hy-Brasil – legendary island to the west of Ireland Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (1999). The...
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  • northern Celtic cultures include these of Annwn, Fairyland, Avalon and Hy Brasil. Tír na nÓg is depicted as an island paradise and supernatural realm of...
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    westward also being the direction in which the phantom island anglicised as Hy-Brasil was purported to be found. In Welsh mythology, the Otherworld is usually...
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    Islands, Iceland, Scandinavia, or possibly nonexistent. The island of Hy-Brasil was sometimes depicted on maps west of Ireland, but all accounts of it...
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    sometimes believed this brasil stems from Celtic word bress, which means "to bless", and that the island was named Hy-Brasil, or "Island of the Blessed"...
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    the isles to the west that the dead inhabited. Barbara Freitag (2013). Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium...
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