 The argument hinges on confusion resulting from two possible meanings for the Old French "li cors" (a nominative case form) which can mean both 'the body' (Modern French "le corps") and 'the horn' (Modern French "la corne"), leading to the mistranslation, by Christian authors, of "li cors beneit" as "the blessed body" - the latter readily construed as a reference either to the body of Christ or to the body of a saint preserved as a holy relic.The common scribal error of misreading the letter 't' as a 'c' yielded the second element "-ben(e)ic".The original name of Castle Corbenic can thus be reconstructed as "Chastiaus del Cor Beneit" - the "Castle of the Blessed Horn" (of Brân) - subsequently misunderstood to mean the "Castle of the Blessed Body" (of Christ).