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Nearly all modern English language sources that I've come across seem to call this character Sabrina, and very few use Hafren or Habren, or Sabre/Sabren. The first page revision makes it look like the title Hafren was chosen as the "correct/original name" of the character:
"Her story is tied to that of a pre-celtic Spirit of that river by the same name, thus the name corresponding to Welsh Hafren occurs in Ireland in the form of Sabrann, an old name of the river Lee that flows through Cork."
But there aren't any reliable sources that support this: the story of the Severn being named after someone drowned there seems to be one of Geoffrey of Monmouth's inventions, in the same way that he invents Humber the Hun to explain another river name a few chapters before this. The Welsh story of the three daughters of Plynlimon doesn't seem to have been connected to this story until the Poly-Olbion in 1612, and was then transformed and popularised by Milton's Comus, but both of these still call the character Sabrina not Hafren, and nearly all sources since then follow them in using Sabrina as well. Would anyone object if I renamed this article from Hafren to Sabrina (legend)? ‑‑YodinT12:39, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
