| Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany. |
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| The dragons remain at Dinas Emrys for centuries until King Vortigern tries to build a castle there. |
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| Vortigern consults his advisers, who tell him to find a boy with no natural father, and sacrifice him. |
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| The boy tells Vortigern that the white dragon symbolises the Saxons and that the red dragon symbolises the people of Vortigern. |
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| According to Nennius, Ambrosius was discovered when the British king Vortigern was trying to erect a tower. |
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| He wrote that after being excommunicated by Germanus, the British leader Vortigern invited twelve druids to assist him. |
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| Medieval legend attributed widespread Saxon immigration to mercenaries hired by the British king Vortigern. |
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| The daughter of Hengest, Rowena, later arrived on a ship of reinforcements, and Vortigern married her. |
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| Also according to the Historia, Ambrosius Aurelius and his brother Uther Pendragon landed at Totnes to win back the throne of Britain from the usurper Vortigern. |
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| One legend recorded of Vortigern concerns his attempt to build a stronghold near Snowdon, called Dinas Emrys, only to have his building materials disappear each time he tries. |
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| After the Romans leave, Vortigern comes to power, and invites the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to fight for him as mercenaries, but they rise against him. |
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| After Aurelius Ambrosius defeats and kills Vortigern, becoming king, Britain remains in a state of war under him and his brother Uther, assisted by the wizard Merlin. |
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| They continued until the arrival of the Romans and after their departure, the crown passed to Vortigern, who sought help from the Saxons in fighting against Constans. |
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| The Historia contains a story of the king Vortigern, who allowed the Saxons to settle in the island of Britain in return for the hand of Hengist's daughter. |
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| According to Bede, Hengist manipulated Vortigern into granting more land and allowing for more settlers to come in, paving the way for the Germanic settlement of Britain. |
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| Vortigern finds such a youth in Ambrosius, who rebukes the wise men and reveals that the cause of the disturbance is two serpents buried under the ground. |
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| If Vortigern is accepted to have lived in the 5th century, then these people are the British whom the Saxons failed to subdue and who became the Welsh. |
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