Editing European dragon (section)

=== Welsh===
{{Main|Welsh Dragon}}
[[File:Vortigern-Dragons.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Fifteenth-century manuscript illustration of the battle of the [[Welsh Dragon|Red]] and [[White dragon|White Dragons]] from [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae|History of the Kings of Britain]]'']]

The red dragon features on, and is the name of, the national flag of Wales (''[[Y Ddraig Goch]]'', "the red dragon"). Early Welsh writing associates dragons with war leaders, and in legend, Nennius, in Historia Birttonum, tells of a vision of the red dragon (representing the [[Brython|Britons]]) and the white dragon (representing the invading [[Saxons]]) fighting beneath [[Dinas Emrys]].<ref name="HistoriaBrittonum">''[[wikisource:History of the Britons|Historia Brittonum]]'' by Nennius (translated by J.A.Giles)</ref>{{rp|at=§40-43}} A version of this particular legend also features in the [[Mabinogion]] in the story of ''[[Lludd and Llefelys]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Sioned|title=The Mabinogion|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=xii}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Heinz|first=Sabine|title=Celtic Symbols|year=2008|publisher=Sterling Pub.}}</ref>