According to one Welsh tradition, Afallach was the father of Modron. The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae associate him with the Insula Avalonsis (Island of Avalon), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall (modern Welsh afal "apple",[1] cf. Proto-Celtic *aballo- "apple"[2]); from which, granted, the name of Avalon is also often thought to derive, so that the meaning of "Afallach" is associated but not necessarily directly.
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