Website review: Morien Institute - The European Dar...
Aeneas101 discovered this in History
•5 reviews since Mar 6, 2008
history, dark-ages, wales
•morien-institute.org/darkages.html
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Aeneas101 discovered 4 months ago- Great article with many good references to impacts in historical times. The mystery of the origins of the red dragon symbol, now on the flag of Wales, has perplexed many historians, writers and romanticists, and the archæological community generally has refrained from commenting on this most unusual emblem, claiming it does not concern them. In the ancient Welsh language it is known as 'Draig Goch' - 'red dragon', and in "Y Geiriadur Cymraeg Prifysgol Cymru", the "University of Wales Welsh Dictionary", (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1967, p. 1082) there are translations for the various uses of the Welsh word 'draig'. Amongst them are common uses of the word, which is today taken just to mean a 'dragon', but in times past it has also been used to refer to 'Mellt Distaw' - (sheet lightning), and also 'Mellt Didaranau' - (lightning unaccompanied by thunder). But the most interesting common usage of the word in earlier times, according to this authoritative dictionary, is 'Maen Mellt' the word used to refer to a 'meteorite'. And this makes sense, as the Welsh word 'maen' translates as 'stone', while the Welsh word 'mellt' translates as 'lightning' - so literally a 'lightning-stone'. That the ancient language of the Welsh druids has words still in use today which have in the past been used to describe both a dragon and also a meteorite, is something that greatly helps us to follow the destructive 'trail of the dragon' as it was described in early Welsh 'riddle-poems'.
- liquidiridium rated 4 months ago
- Info about the perplexing Red Dragon in Welsh mythology. Interesting link I got while visiting http://antdav.stumbleupon.com/ page.
- antdav rated 4 months ago
The European Dark Age And Welsh Oral Tradition - On The Trail of the Dragon. The origin of the Red Dragon symbol, or Draig Goch, was a comet that caused an environmental downturn leading to the European Dark Ages. In Welsh the word Draig is used to refer to sheet lightning, lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and meteorites, or maen mellt - lightning stones. Merlyn's vision of a meteorite storm is what drove him to live in the forest, and it caused the environmental downturn that led to the European Dark Ages, and the wastelands of Arthurian legend.
- IriniAlana rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "The mystery of the origins of the red dragon symbol, now on the flag of Wales, has perplexed many historians, writers and romanticists, and the archæological community generally has refrained from commenting on this most unusual emblem, claiming it does not concern them. In the ancient Welsh language it is known as 'Draig Goch' - 'red dragon', and in "Y Geiriadur Cymraeg Prifysgol Cymru", the "University of Wales Welsh Dictionary", (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1967, p. 1082) there are translations for the various uses of the Welsh word 'draig'. Amongst them are common uses of the word, which is today taken just to mean a 'dragon', but in times past it has also been used to refer to 'Mellt Distaw' - (sheet lightning), and also 'Mellt Didaranau' - (lightning unaccompanied by thunder). But the most interesting common usage of the word in earlier times, according to this authoritative dictionary, is 'Maen Mellt' the word used to refer to a 'meteorite'. And this makes sense, as the Welsh word 'maen' translates as 'stone', while the Welsh word 'mellt' translates as 'lightning' - so literally a 'lightning-stone'. That the ancient language of the Welsh druids has words still in use today which have in the past been used to describe both a dragon and also a meteorite, is something that greatly helps us to follow the destructive 'trail of the dragon' as it was described in early Welsh 'riddle-poems'."
- landers53 rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "Beginning in the year A.D. 536, and continuing through until A.D. 545, the dendrochronology record reveals a dramatic â€narrowest-rings event†that is corroborated by some of the findings of the Greenland Ice Sheet Projects. There, a significant absense of any tell-tale volcanic â€acid spike†in the ice-cores record suggests an altogether different cause - dustloading of the stratosphere by minute particles of dust and other cometary debris. Climatologists and astronomers concur that this event bears all the hallmarks of a 'cosmic winter†scenario - when dust in the stratosphere blots out the Sun, lowering the global temperature, hindering plant growth and in so doing undermining agricultural societies."
