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What do white horses symbolise in Welsh mythology? What is the Mabinogion and was King Arthur from Wales?

Well today we're delving into the weird and wonderful world of Welsh mythology to find out.

Eleanor Evans was joined by Mark Reese an expert on

folklore, myths and ghost stories of the country to learn more about dragons, fairy folk

and giant beaver crocodiles and the incredible landscapes that

shaped them.

Welcome to today's episode of everything you wanted to know about and today's subject is

Wealth mythology. I am really pleased to be

joined by author and journalist Mark Reese who specializes in Welsh folklore, ghosts and culture. Thank you so much Mark

for joining us for today's episode.

Thank you so much for inviting me. It's lovely to be you, Eleanor.

Wonderful. So we have some listener questions we are going to dig into.

We're going to start with the most obvious one. It's there on the flag flag. Mark where does the dragon come from in

Welsh mythology? Well the dragon is an excellent one to kick things off with. The dragon

I mean the dragon's association with Wales today with the flag,

with the symbolism, with the iconography, we can thank Henry Tudor for that and the Tudor

dynasty because when Henry Tudor conquered England,

he decided the dragon should be the symbol for Wales.

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