What follows is mythology that is used in the creation of the Wuh Lax series of books, See . The subject of early english language appears in the excellent book by MJ Harper.
The three hares were originally an abstraction in a world where nothing was written down. This world was dominated by hills and the breath of life that moved through the hills was referred to as Breeze.
The Breeze people breathed and through breath they attained life. The faster they breathed the greater was the level of life they attained until they became like the wind and could fly through the air as breeze. The hare breathed fast and moved like the wind and was highly respected by the breeze people, who saw three levels of life based on wind with the last being that of the spirit and made eternal. The hare ran fast in a figure eight which the breeze people used as a symbol for eternity and the spiritual life they were seeking.
The three hares signify three dimensions that concerned them at the time (more on this later, a dimension is a boundary for which it is impossible to cross without transformation; transformation comes with the combining of the four main life forces (water, salt, sand/soil, and organics). In the nature of the universe discoveries have shown that particles can occupy more than one dimension at any one time and it is such properties than enable light that is the mind of man to shape his material universe while aware of the realms of light of invisible universes beyond all imagining.
The breeze people had an alphabet and carved messages on trees, branches, soil, bodies, and sand. They placed stones to define the very large round settlements of their families. The breeze people were the Bri people who eventually took their lead from those settled along the river Tone (now Taunton, where they had their capital city not far from Athelney the capital of the later Saxon rulers of Britain). The people of the breeze settled across the three islands (now Ireland, Britain and Europe). From northwest europe they settled further and further into the east as well.
They became known as the Britons, and their lands as Breton or Brittany, or Britain. They eventually formed a nation that spoke the language of the Ing, a person=hero who in their mythology discovered the property of making metal called bronze from Tin. The Ing was the 'hero' of the Bri people, and his land was known as Ingland, a variation of Tinland. The people of Ingland settled across the island of Ingland, selling tin to make bronze and creating the first wave of civilization (the bronze age) and migrating through Europe travelling as far as the coast of the Mediterranean and well into Asia influencing a broad stretch of the globe arriving eventually in Asia and thence back once more to Ingland, through long extensive trading routes.
The language of the Ing became the source of the European and asian languages See.
Locally in Ingland, the Ing eventually were overrun with the arrival of the darkish curly haired people from Africa and South Western Europe, who spoke a different group of languages and who seized the land from the Bri (breeze) people in order to seize their tin for making weapons. These people were warlike and conquered the Ing. They were known as celts and they absorbed the religion of the Ing into their own. Because of their strange languages and proximity to Roman influence the Romans did not originally recognize the Ing culture. With their swords, and fearsome ways the celts had ruled the peaceful Ing people, but there influence was eventually displaced by that of the Romans.
The celts reign over a long period had caused the Ing to lose and forget their heritage. Thus because their story rotted with the trees, the people of Ing lost their king, the hero and their past became timeless and meaningless. The Romans eventually claimed the culture of Ing absorbing its ideas as their own, and the contribution of the Ing people was lost.
Curiously, a general of the Romans found traces of the people of Ing at Tone when he was conquering the South West of Britain in search of tin and lead. He learned from Corellus one of his generals that the Ing had combined with the celts to form a single people, but that it was only the celts that were warlike. He recognized the importance of the Ing to peace and Roman influence, but he knew that the spiritual leaders now the druids who did not recognize tribal boundaries (between the celts and the Ing) might unite all the people of Ingland as one people to push the Romans off the island. Nevertheless, Romans arranged for a permanent peace with the people of the Ing which obviously stood the test of time.
By way of interest, the Ings (the Ing people) had occuped the whole island of Ingland, but they were mostly to be found in England and they spoke the English language over a wide area. They were very numerous as a people, but had no written word, or at least that is the mythology. With the arrival of the Romans, the warlike and ruling 'celts' retreated to Wales and remoter regions of the island since they would not live under Roman rule. The Ing, the hero worshippers, remained in England and retaught the Romans their full language and spiritual ways which survive to this day as does England, the land of the 'hero.' To their credit, the commercial and military language of the romans died away and was replaced by Italian a language derived from the much older language of the Ing.