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Hafren
Hafren
was a
legendary British princess
who was drowned in the
River Severn
(; ) by her repudiated stepmother
Gwendolen
. The legend appears in
Geoffrey of Monmouth
's pseudohistorical chronicle
Historia Regum Britanniae
. According to Geoffrey, Hafren is the
eponym
of the Severn, which bears one of Britain's most ancient
river names
(recorded as early as the
2nd century
in the
Latinized
form
Sabrina
).
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