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Dinas Emrys

Beddgelert, Snowdonia

Where the red dragon of Wales fought the white dragon.

King Vortigern tried to build a tower on this hill, but every night its walls collapsed. A boy named Emrys, later called Merlin, told him the cause: two dragons fought in a pool beneath the hill.

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When
Legend
Where
53.0225, -4.0889
Group
Legends

Visiting

National Trust land on the Craflwyn estate. A steep woodland climb.

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