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Depends on whose myths you read. Remember, the folks in Galicia have OLDER sources than their cousins in Ireland and UK, and they place entirely different readings on them.

There's been a serious dispute between the English classicists and the Spanish classicists on these issues for a very long time ~ since at least the mid 1600s when Galician went out of existence.

BTW, there are a couple of other Celtic languages that disappeared over the length of time we are talking about and there isn't much agreement on what their words meant unless they were clearly cognate. With a large number of Celtic speaking Christian "knights"? entering Northern Spain in the centuries after the Moslem invasion, there's even disagreement over whether various noble names were in Cornish, or some other Celtic language. Many names that seem to be manifestly latinate, or Spanish, or even Arabic, are, on examintion, revealed to be Celtic in derivation ~ all Spanish surnames beginning with "SA", Cornishf for "FLAG", are in that category. Although the Galicians would like for the Celtic contribution to be recognized, the Spanish Spanish try to impress purely Spanish, or even Hebraic, Ladino or Arabic meanings on those names ~ anything but the language of the redheaded wildmen!