BRAN, in Celtic legend, the name of (I) the hero of the Welsh Mabinogi of Branwen, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's wrongs; he is the son of Llyr (=the Irish sea-god Lir), identified with the Irish Bran mac Allait, Allait being a synonym of Lir; (2) the son of Febal, known only through the 8th century Irish epic, The Voyage of Bran (to the world below) ; (3) the dog of Ossian's Fingal.
See Kuno Meyer and D. Nutt, The Voyage of Bran (1895).