GRAIL MYTH

  Vortigern's Fortress One of the stories of the Welsh Mabinogen tells us that long ago, many years before the time of Arthur, the King of Britain was a man named lludd. He was a fine warrior, generous and kind. Britain prospered under his reign with the excception of three plagues. One of these plagues was a terrible scream heard every May Eve throughout the realm. It was so chilling a sound that it caused people to lose their senses and stripped the land of her fruits.  Llefe;us. brother of Lludd, told the king that the only way to rid the people of this horror was to find the center of the land, dig down into the earth, and there he would find two fighting dragons, the source of the scream. These dragons would then have to be subdued with the finest mead, and once asleep, transported and hidden, buried deep beneath the earth in the strongest place in the land. Lludd did all that Llefelys had instructed and buried the sleeping dragons in Snowdoniain a strong place that...