In my Dragon Trilogy of books -[ Ссылка ] - the ancient fortress of Dinas Emrys is a major location, if not a character itself. I did a lot of research online when I wrote the books and decided not to go and visit in person. I worried that I might get too obsessed with fitting the story into the reality of the place rather than the magic and fantasy of my imagination.
I tried to go there a few weeks ago (see this video [ Ссылка ] ) but it was pouring with rain, so I returned on the the Eve of may Day, the day that myth tells us the Red and White Dragon would fight each other across the skies of ancient Britain. Eventually they were captured and incarcerated beneath Dynas Emrys.
The white Dragon represents the invading Saxons and the Red dragon eventually became the the symbol of Wales, the land where the ancient Britons were the Ancient Britons retained after the Saxon invasion.
In this video, I take you up to the top of Dinas Emrys, near Beddgellert in Snowdonia, not far from Mt Snowdon itself, where I read the story of the capture and incarceration of the Red and White dragon, as told in the book, by Mr Davis, teacher of Harri, hero of the stories.
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