Description: Flag of Wales New Red Dragon in the middle of half white, half green field Hand held flag 6" x 4" / 15cm x10cm Flag is 100% polyester 10" / 26.67cm black plastic post with pointed top black finial The flag comes on and off the post, there are speed bumps on the post to keep the flag from sliding Please see the pictures and ask any questions FREE shipping in the US ********************************* From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Welsh Dragon centered on a horizontal bi-colour of white and green The flag of Wales (Welsh: Baner Cymru or Y Ddraig Goch, meaning 'the red dragon') consists of a red dragon passant on a green and white field. As with many heraldic charges, the exact representation of the dragon is not standardised in law and many renderings exist. It is not represented in the Union Flag. The red dragon of Wales personifies the fearlessness of the Welsh nation.[1] Vortigern (Welsh: Gwrtheyrn) King of the Celtic Britons from Powys is interrupted whilst attempting to build a fort at Dinas Emrys. He is told by Merlin/Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin) to dig up two dragons beneath the castle. He discovers a red dragon representing the Celtic Britons (now Welsh) and a white dragon representing Anglo-Saxons (now English). Merlin/Ambrosius prophesies that the Celtic Britons will reclaim the island and push the Anglo-Saxons back to the sea.[2][3] As an emblem, the red dragon of Wales has been used since the reign of Cadwaladr, King of Gwynedd from around AD 655.[4][5] The Red Welsh dragon is often described as the "Red Dragon of Cadwaladr" for this reason.[6] Historia Brittonum was written circa 828, and by this point the dragon was no longer just a military symbol but associated with a coming deliverer from the Saxons, and for the first time as a symbol of independence. It is also the first time that the colour of the dragon is verifiably given as red. Nevertheless there may well be an older attribution of red to the colour of the dragon in Y Gododdin.[7] The story of Lludd a Llefelys in the Mabinogion settles the matter, firmly establishing the red dragon of the Celtic Britons being in opposition with the white dragon of the Saxons.[8] Tudor colours of green and white were added by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, after which it was carried in state to St Paul's Cathedral and a dragon added as a supporter of the Tudor royal arms. It was officially recognised as the Welsh national flag in 1959. Several cities include a dragon in their flag design, including Cardiff, the Welsh capital.
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