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单词 Vortigern
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Vortigern

Detail from Lambeth Palace Library MS 6 folio 43v illustrating an episode in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) in which Vortigern meets the young Merlin, who explains that an underground fight between red and white dragons is causing Vortigern's fortress to collapse.
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The First Meeting of Vortigern and Rowena painted by William Hamilton

Vortigern (/ˈvɔːrtɜːrn/; Welsh:Gwrtheyrn; Old English:Wyrtgeorn; Breton:Guorthigern; Irish:Foirtchern), also spelled Vortiger and Vortigen, was a 5th-century warlord in Britain, a leading ruler among the Britons. His existence is considered likely, but information about him is shrouded in legend.

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