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In modern French bren means filth, refuse, and this points to some connexion with Celtic words, e.g.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

I winna give o'er, ye false Gord-on To nae sic traitor as ye; And if ye bren my ain dear babes, My lord sall make you dree.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry

And if I *at mine owen luste bren* *burn by my own will* From whence cometh my wailing and my plaint?

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Boult it from the bren: Examine the matter thoroughly; a metaphor taken from the sifting of meal, to divide the fine flour from the bran.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

‘Lever I had,’ sayde Wyllyam, ‘With my sworde in the route to renne, Then here among myne enemyes wode Thus cruelly to bren.’

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank