White dragon

[1] The earliest usage of the white dragon as a symbol of the Anglo-Saxons is found in the Historia Brittonum.

The relevant story takes place at Dinas Emrys when Vortigern tries to build a castle there.

Vortigern consults his advisers, who tell him to find a boy with no natural father, and to sacrifice him.

The Historia Brittonum and History of the Kings of Britain are the only medieval texts to use the white dragon as a symbol of the English.

Lludd finally eradicated the plague by catching the dragons and burying both of them in a rock pit at Dinas Emrys in Snowdonia, north Wales, the securest place in Britain at that time.

Daughter of Hengist!In February 2003 during his enthronement at Canterbury Cathedral Archbishop Rowan Williams wore hand-woven gold silk robes bearing a gold and silver clasp that showed the white dragon of England and the red dragon of Wales.

[6] A version of the white dragon symbol was embraced by Geoffrey Dunn (also known as Wulf Ingessunu),[7]: 136  a far-right activist whose organisation Woden's Folk regards Adolf Hitler to have been "the incarnation of Wotan upon Earth.