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In the 16th century, the naming of a character identified with English military prowess as "Britomart" in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene (probably just because "Brit" seemed to fit well with "Britain", with "mart" from Mars, the god of war) led to a number of appearances by "Britomart" figures in British art and literature. | In the 16th century, the naming of a character identified with English military prowess as "Britomart" in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene (probably just because "Brit" seemed to fit well with "Britain", with "mart" from Mars, the god of war) led to a number of appearances by "Britomart" figures in British art and literature. | ||
==Translations== | |||
az: Britomartida; bg: Бритомартида; br: Britomartis; ca: Britomartis; cs: Britomartis; de: Britomartis; el: Βριτόμαρτις; en: Britomartis; es: Britomartis; fi: Diktynna; fr: Britomartis; hu: Britomartisz; it: Britomarti; ja: ブリトマルティス; lt: Britomartė; mk: Бритомартида; mr: ब्रिटोमर्टिस; nl: Britomartis; no: Britomartis; pl: Britomartis; pt: Britomártis; ru: Бритомартида; sr: Бритомартида; sv: Britomartis; tr: Britomartis; uk: Брітомартіда; zh: 布里托玛耳提斯 | |||
