[Regia-NA] "Celtic" dragons?

[Seathrun MagAoinghouis]

The only referances I have seen are for snakes.

Seathrun



--- "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net> wrote:
>On another list I am on, someone brought up the subject of "Celtic" 
>dragons -- she was on a chat room and said something to the effect of 
>"Chinese dragons were good whereas in Europe dragons were usually seen 
>to be bad" and someone else said "Except Celtic dragons".
>
>So now the issue has come down to how much dragons were used in any 
>early "Celtic" art or legends, if at all.  I brought up the issue of 
>exactly what was meant by "Celtic", and of course someone had to pipe in 
>with "I have this book on druid stuff using an animal oracle card deck 
>and it talks about dragons and the four elements...", and others have 
>brought up the use of dragons in Arthurian legend, but of course, the 
>Arthurian legends as we know aren't purely "Celtic" or Welsh or 
>Anglo-Saxon or Frankish or Norman... but a mish mash of a bunch of 
>influences.
>
>So, how prevalent were dragons in early "Celtic" art or stories -- 
>whether Cymru or Gaulish or Manx or what have you -- that existed 
>independent of Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian influences?
>
>-- Brett
>
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