The Dragons of Dinas Emrys
This week, we begin to dip our toes into the deep waters that are Arthurian myths (or, in this case, myths that are King Arthur's adjacent). This week we are telling two stories based on the 9th-century tales of the monk Nennius and his quasi-historical writings about the dreadful tyrant Vortigern and his inability to get a castle to remain standing overnight. Cue entry for the man of the millennium- Merlin. Or is he? Is this really an Arthurian legend at all, or is this something older, based on the original Welsh myths of the Mabinogion? Is it Emrys or Ambrosius who reveals the secrets of…
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