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Sorry just to add to those who say there is no evidence: there is more just as sufficient evidence of the dragons as there is of St. George, just look a some tapesrties and do your research. Also consider that when the Normans and William the Conqueror came they did a little 'ethnic and cultural' cleansing...
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2008-04-25 by Piers Wilson from South West England
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I've done some research and I can safely say that this is the true flag/banner icon of England and St. Edmund - the true patron Saint. St. George was brought here by the Normans. I would actually suggest entwining both the cross and the white dragon so as to unite the two and to remind us of our English past. God knows it won't be taught in schools, which is pathetic to say the least!
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2008-04-24 by Piers from South West England
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Fantastic site. I'm searching for a picture, brooch or meaning of something that came to me in a dream. Find the Golden Dragon. I've searched high and low and only come up with Chinese restaurants! I've found one brooch in a little craft centre on the border of Wales encircled with a wreath of bayleaves - it was only £4. I wondered is there a person known by this title in history? I think Bruce Lee was. So finding there is a flag or banner in history has made my day!
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2008-02-26 by Athenas Owl from Minchinhampton Glos
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I was taught the Saxon banner at an early age along with the better methods for achieving colour which might clear up some issues here. The background is preferable from red fruits but can exist as dark as black[currant]. The dragon over which I now read much debate was to be bleached from blonde. This means it might start in yellow but would fade out by bleaching in the sun till preferably white. Thus gold on red, white on red, beige on black are all the same, but white on blood red was the desired finish.
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2008-02-06 by Shane Carter [Blood] from Derby, England
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My re-collections may be wrong, however I do recall seeing a picture of a banner from the time of Henry 8th and Elizabeth I that had both the red and white dragon (yellowish in colour) facing each other, eye to eye, not in combat not in reverence. When I saw this I thought what a way to show British unity. Britain is an anglo-celtic country as history and genetics prove, and archaeology has proved. The people of the red dragon invited the people of the white dragon to repel those invading the Scots and Irish. It is not in our national interest to forget that. I am of heritage from all over Britain, which is the land of the Britons for those that did not forget. I found that after schooling in England I had to re-educate myself in a history that was never taught in our schools. You would think a Saxon or a Celt never lived here the way the hsitory is taught, so Norman and ecclliesiatically oriented that it is. This was, and still is, deliberately done today. After my re-education, I totally rejected the idea that the Britons were pushed into the sea, some ended up in that British refugee camp called Wales, others were incorporated into the new Saxon dominated order. There are records of Saxon kings having British names and there are records of large areas and townships that were completely known to Saxons as being wholey British. They are everywhere, six out of every ten people in some areas are descended from Britons. Were you ever taught that Welsh forces helped Alfred the Great? Were you ever taught that the creation of the English Common law also included Kings of Wales?
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2008-01-08 by Martin Williams from Vancouver
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Excellent flag which represents our history. We came to Britain and forced the native celts out of what is now England. We should be proud we claimed this land for our children under the flag.
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2007-09-28 by shaun ramsay from newcastle
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The White Dragon Emblem to me represents all that is good in England and I think it should once again be our national emblem.
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2007-07-25 by Philip A.Pelham from Lincolnshire
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'The Golden Dragon of Wessex', because it was said to have been carried by Cuthred of Wessex at the battle of Burford in AD 752, yet it appears to have been originally used by Saxon tribes on the Continent. It seems that when the West Saxons invaded Britain in AD 495, they carried a golden dragon as their standard. The dragon appeared on the standards of at least four of William's successors, and in his account of the crusade undertaken by Richard I, the chronicler Ricard of Devizes mentions 'The terrible standard of the dragon...borne in front unfurled'. According to the records, the dragon on the standard of Henry III was made of red silk, 'sparkling all over with gold', its tongue like burning fires, and its eyes made of 'sapphires or some other suitable stones'.
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2007-07-18 by Steve from Eastern England
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At a time when England seems to be losing its identity, surely now is the hour to once again fly the flag of the white dragon, and all English rally to it, as they did with Alfred or Harold. Let us once again be proud to be English.
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2007-07-16 by Scotty Scott from Germany
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I have found an English dragon cut out of lead. It is made of 3 sheets of lead about 1/8" 3 mm thick making about 3/8" 10mm thick in total. It is one sided, facing left and looks like it was cut by hand with a fine saw or similar. It was not cut with a chisel. There are flutes in the wings (not music flutes) and other details. The dragon was at sometime painted white. I have had this for about 25 years and often puzzled why it has 3 feet on the ground and is painted white. I live on the Welsh borders at Presteigne. LD8 postcode. I have no idea how old this is even though I am a restoration Blacksmith Any thoughts, please email. Thanks.
Comment on White Dragon Emblem posted 2008-07-22 by Pete Smith from Presteigne Powys.