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Brigantia was a goddess in Celtic (Gallo-Roman and Romano-British) religion of Late Antiquity. Through ''interpretatio Romana'', she was equated with ''Victoria''. The tales connected to the characters of Brigid and Saint Brigid in Irish mythology and legend have been argued to be connected to Brigantia although the figures themselves remain distinct. ==Etymology== The name ''Brigantia'' continues the feminine PIE '' *bhr̥g'hntī'', from a root ''berg'h'' "high, lofty, elevated". The name is in origin an adjectival epithet simply meaning "the high one", "the elevated one". An exact cognate is found in the Germanic ''Burgundi'' (Proto-Germanic '' *burgundī'', compare ''Bornholm''), in Sanskrit ''br̥hatī'', and in Avestan ''bǝrǝzaitī'', both feminine adjectives meaning "high" (Sanskrit Brhati also being a female given name, as is Old High German ''Purgunt''). The ethnonym ''Brigantes'' may either translate to "the high, noble ones" or to "highlanders" (IEW, s.v. "bhereg'h-"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brigantia (goddess)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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