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Welsh Mythology

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WalesMonsters & beings

The Red Dragon: The Dragon on the Welsh Flag

Under a hill in Snowdonia, says a Latin history written in 829 or 830, a red dragon and a white one fought until the red drove the white away, and a boy explained that they were the Britons and the English. The dragon then became a king's standard, a royal badge and, only in 1959, the official flag of Wales.

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WalesGods & deities

The Mabinogi: The Four Branches

A prince who spends a year in another king's shape, a giant who lies down as a bridge, a kingdom emptied by a spell and a woman made of flowers: four medieval Welsh tales, each ending "thus ends this branch of the Mabinogi". No medieval book was ever called the Mabinogion; the name comes from a copyist's slip and a Victorian translation.

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