Editing Dinas Emrys (section)

===Origin and confinement of the dragons===
[[Image:Welsh dragon.svg|220px|thumb|right|The ''Prophecy of Merlin'' which features the enduring legend of the Red Dragon is centred on Dinas Emrys]]
The earliest sources regard the two dragons as distinctly different, and in a metaphor of the ''[[Adventus Saxonum]]'' describes one as being native to the island of Britain (it had arrived first) which was then joined by another new and alien dragon that fought it for supremacy.

As to how the dragons became confined there, the story of ''[[Lludd and Llefelys]]'' in the [[Mabinogion]] gives details. According to the legend, when [[Lludd]] ruled Britain ({{circa}}100&nbsp;BC), a hideous scream, whose origin could not be determined, was heard each May Eve. This scream so perplexed the Britons that it caused infertility, panic and mayhem throughout the realm. In need of help Lludd sought counsel on this and other matters from his brother [[Llefelys]], a King of Gaul. Llefelys furnished the information that the scream was caused by battling dragons. The scream would be uttered by the ''dragon of the [[Britons (historical)|Britons]]'' when it was fighting another alien dragon and was being defeated. Lludd heeded the advice given to him by Llefelys and captured both dragons in a [[cauldron]] filled with mead when they had transformed themselves, as apparently dragons did, into pigs. The captured dragons were buried at the place later called Dinas Emrys, as it was regarded as the safest place to put them.<ref>Gantz, Jeffrey (translator) (1987). The Mabinogion. New York: Penguin. {{ISBN|0-14-044322-3}}</ref>

The main entrance to the fort is on the northern side of the hill and traces of a ruined medieval tower 36 feet by 24 feet have been found on the summit. Nearby is a circle of tumbled stones about 30 feet in diameter which is said to be where the dragons were hidden.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} Before Dinas Emrys was so-named the fort was known as ''Dinas Ffaraon Dandde''.<ref>[http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/arthist/saintsmove.htm Vortigern Studies, Saints on the move (Robert Vermaat)]</ref>