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Originally called Dinas Ffareon, it is an Iron Age hill fort overlooking Lyn Dinas. It was here that King Lludd ab Beli buried the two dragons which fought each May in Oxford, as told in the Welsh epic the Mabinogion. | Originally called Dinas Ffareon, it is an Iron Age hill fort overlooking Lyn Dinas. | ||
It was here that King Lludd ab Beli buried the two dragons which fought each May in Oxford, as told in the Welsh epic the Mabinogion. | |||
Later, when King Vortigern retreated back into Snowdonia he chose Dinas Ffareon as the place to build his fort, however each night the ground was shaken such that the fort fell down. The King's advisors stated that a fatherless child had to be sacrificed in order to stop the fort tumbling, and after a search it was one Merddyn Emrys (Merlin) who was found (being taunted by some boys as to his lack of a father). | Later, when King Vortigern retreated back into Snowdonia he chose Dinas Ffareon as the place to build his fort, however each night the ground was shaken such that the fort fell down. The King's advisors stated that a fatherless child had to be sacrificed in order to stop the fort tumbling, and after a search it was one Merddyn Emrys (Merlin) who was found (being taunted by some boys as to his lack of a father). | ||
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