ok is it Merlin, with his sword and lightning ?
Anyway 3 versions of merlins fables
1)Beddgelert is the setting for two of Wales’s most celebrated legends. Probably the most famous of all is the story of Dinas Emrys, the lofty mountain home of the dragon you see fluttering on a thousand Welsh flags. Building a castle Way, way back in the fifth century the Celtic King
Vortigern chose Dinas Emrys as the site for his
castle. From here he hoped to escape the Saxons
but his plans for a fortress weren't easily achieved. Every night the royal masons would lay down their
tools only to return the next day to find they'd
vanished and their carefully crafted walls had fallen
down. And so it went on, day after day until Vortigern was
forced to seek the help of sorcerers and magicians.
They advised that the ground should be sprinkled
with the blood of a child born to a human mother
and a father from the ‘other world’. Merlin and the dragons’ lair A search was launched and eventually the child
was found in Caer Myrddin (Carmarthen) and
preparations for the sacrifice were made. But the child, Myrddin Emrys, was no ordinary child.
In fact, he was Merlin, the wizard. Merlin convinced
Vortigern that two dragons lay sleeping under a
lake inside the mountain and it was they that were
destroying the foundations of his fortress. Convinced the boy was right, Vortigern
commanded his labourers to dig deep into the
mountain. They did as they were told and discovered an
underground lake, just as Merlin had predicted.
Once drained, the red and white dragons that lay
sleeping there awoke and began to fight. Battle of two dragons The white dragon represented the Saxons and the
red dragon the Welsh. Eventually the white dragon
fled and the red dragon returned quietly to his lair. Vortigern’s castle was built and duly named after
Dinas Emrys in honour of Merlin, and the red
dragon has been celebrated ever since. Not convinced? In 1945 the site was excavated by
archaeologists who discovered a lake and the ruins
of the fortress dating to Vortigern’s time. The walls
all showed signs of having been rebuilt several
times… Tread carefully if you explore this hill. A dragon
sleeps beneath it.
2)The story goes that two great dragons, one red and
one white fought a terrible battle over the lonely forests and bogs of south Shropshire and were seen in a dream by the great enchanter Merlin. Finally, locked in the embrace of death, they fell to earth and became the mountain ridges of the Stiperstones and the Long Mynd. From the air there is definitely an uncanny resemblance to these beasts in the way that the two ridges lie adjacent to each other. While the tale of dying dragons is no more than folklore, the strange and incredibly old peaks of the Stiperstones are renowned for strange happenings and dark legends.
3)Then those two dragons, one of which was white, the other red, rose up and came near one another, and began a sore fight, and cast forth fire with their breath. But the white dragon had the advantage, and chased the other to the end of the lake. And he, for grief at his flight, turned back upon his foe, and renewed the combat, and forced him to retire in turn. But in the end the red dragon was worsted, and the white dragon disappeared no man knew where. When their battle was done, the king desired Merlin to tell him what it meant. Whereat he, bursting into tears, cried out this prophecy, which first foretold the coming of King Arthur. “Woe to the red dragon, which figureth the British nation, for his banishment cometh quickly; his lurkingholes shall be seized by the white dragon— the Saxon whom thou, O king, hast called to the land. The mountains shall be levelled as the valleys, and the rivers of the valleys shall run blood; cities shall be burned, and churches laid in ruins; till at length the oppressed shall turn for a season and prevail against the strangers. For a Boar of Cornwall shall arise and rend them, and trample their necks beneath his feet. The island shall be subject to his power, and he shall take the forests of Gaul. The house of Romulus shall dread him—all the world shall fear him—and his end shall no man know; he shall be immortal in the mouths of the people, and his works shall be food to those that tell them. “But as for thee, O Vortigern, flee thou the sons of Constantine, for they shall burn thee in thy tower. For thine own ruin wast thou traitor to their father, and didst bring the Saxon heathens to the land. Aurelius and Uther are even now upon thee to revenge their father’s murder; and the brood of the white dragon shall waste thy country, and shall lick thy blood. Find out some refuge, if thou wilt! but who may escape the doom of God?”
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I shouldn't be too surprised at his maths, when he subtracted 4 from 10 and got ironing board as the answer I suspected something wasn't quite right in his bonce.
