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Brasil (mythical island)
Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil or several other variants,〔Hy Brasil, Hy Breasil, Hy Breasail, Hy Breasal, Hy Brazil〕 is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Irish myths described it as cloaked in mist except for one day every seven years, when it became visible but still could not be reached.
==Etymology of the name==
The etymology of the names ''Brasil'' and ''Hy-Brasil'' are unknown, but in Irish tradition it is thought to come from the Irish ''Uí Breasail'' (meaning "descendants (''i.e.'', clan) of Breasal"), one of the ancient clans of northeastern Ireland. cf. Old Irish: ''Í'': island; ''bres'': beauty, worth, great, mighty.〔"Hy Brasil" A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. James McKillop.University Press, 1998.〕
Despite the similarity, the name of the country Brazil has no connection to the mythical islands. The South American country was at first named Ilha de Vera Cruz (''Island of the True Cross'') and later Terra de Santa Cruz (''Land of the Holy Cross'') by the Portuguese navigators who discovered the land. After some decades, it started to be called "Brazil" (Brasil, in Portuguese) due to the exploitation of native Brazilwood, at that time the only export of the land. In Portuguese, brazilwood is called ''pau-brasil'', with the word ''brasil'' commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from Latin ''brasa'' ("ember") and the suffix ''-il'' (from ''-iculum'' or ''-ilium'').〔(CNRTL ) – Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales 〕〔(Michaelis ) – Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa 〕〔(iDicionário Aulete ) 〕
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