HAND-CRAFTED LARGE CUTE CELTIC WELSH RED DRAGON - HOME ~ ORNAMENT ~ GARDEN

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*** BRAND NEW ~ HAND-CRAFTED *** CELTIC W ELSH R ED D RAGON HOME ~ORNAMENT ~ GARDEN 6" LONG x 3" HIGH x 5" WIDE Made in our own workshop, he is handcast in fine casting powder, hand painted with two layers of paint and lovingly finished with a waterproof top coating. Celtic W ales .... is a land of witchcraft and dragons, with a legacy of colourful mythology and renowned supernatural mystery. Welsh culture and identity has been characterised down the centuries by Celtic myth, legend and fantasy. Wales is the accepted birthplace of Merlin (legendary magician to King Arthur) and many scholars agree that the ancient Celtic King held round table in Wales. He existed during the era historically associated with Welsh folklore, which describes a lost magical kingdom when sleeping dragons, trolls, Kings, knights and chivalry co-existed. Caerleon, one of the Welsh towns associated with King Arthur's court, was in earlier times a very significant Roman garrison, and includes remains from the largest Roman amphitheatre outside Italy. It was from south western Wales that the famous Bluestones of Presseli were mysteriously transported - by the Welsh - to Stonehenge in England! At this time the island of Great Britain was a wholly Celtic country. The M abinogion tells the tale of the imprisonment of two Dragons in Dinas Emrys onSnowdon and is one of the most curious legends of romantic fiction. Their combats, five centuries later, led to the discovery of the enchanter Merlin, with which opens the great drama of Arthurian Romance. This story it is also found in Nennius, who wrote Historia Brittonum in the eighth century. The substance of the tale as told by Nennius is as follows …. Vortigern being forced to retire from his kingdom, in consequence of his various delinquencies, took refuge in Snowdon and, finding Dinas Emrys an eligible spot, commenced building a tower there. But, to his great dismay, he found that whatever he that whatever he built in the daytime always fell down in the succeeding night. Having consulted his magicians upon the cause of this mystery, they told him that unless he could find a child without a father and sprinkle the tower with his blood, it would never stand. Upon this Vortigern despatched messengers in every direction to search for the required victim and, at length they lit upon Merlin, whom they brought to Vortigern that he might be slain. But the boy exposed the ignorance and imposture of the magicians and caused the ground to be dug at the foundation of the building, where they found two sleeping dragons, one white and the other red. These dragons awaking from their sleep commenced a furious conflict. The white one at first had the advantage of the red but eventually the red dragon prevailed and expelled his opponent. Merlin then informed them that the red was the British (the people whom the Saxons failed to subdue and who became the Welsh) dragon and the white one that of the invading Saxons. Then it was, according to Geoffrey and the Brut, that Merlin uttered the celebrated prophecy concerning the fate of Britain. Vortigern departing thence to seek some other place of refuge bestowed that citadel upon the wonderful child, who declared his name to be Merlin Ambrosius and, after whom the spot was called Dinas Emrys. Whatever origin may be assigned to this legend, it is well known that the red dragon has long been the national standard of the Welsh. Henry VII (Tudor) bore it at Bosworth and afterwards established the heraldic office of Rouge Dragon in honour of the occasion. Wales is an inspirational, culturally rich nation which shares the island of Great Britain withScotland and England. The border which separates Wales from England closely traces "Offa's Dyke", a 149 mile trench construction established in the 8th Century. The thriving culture ofWales follows in traditions which can be sourced to the Dark Ages - some of the world's oldest customs were first practised here in ancient times by Welsh druids. Many nativ... read more

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