When U-bends were sacred. And the dragons who dwelt there.

In this video I quite literally shed light on why early churches were often in the U- bends of rivers. Although strictly they’re S-shaped loops rather than U-bends. And why they might be where dragons were once thought to dwell. Even though the legends suggest they were once known as wyrmas.
Sources
Michael Dames, ‘Taliesin’s Travels: A demi-god at large’ (Heart of Albion 2005)
Richard Freeman, ‘Explore Dragons’ (Explore Books 2006)
Chang Chung-yuan ‘Creativity and Taoism’ (Wildwood House 1975)
Clive Tolley, ‘Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic’, (Academia Scientiarum Fennica 2009) pp313, 319, 328.
Bob Trubshaw, ‘Singing Up the Country: The songlines of Avebury and beyond’ (Heart of Albion 2011); www.hoap.co.uk/singing_up_the_country.pdf
Bob Trubshaw, ‘From protective dragons to potent saints’; online at www.indigogroup.co.uk/twilight/ast0370.htm (2013)
Bob Trubshaw, ‘Minsters and Valleys: A topographical comparison of seventh and eighth century land use in Leicestershire and Wiltshire’ (Heart of Albion 2015); www.hoap.co.uk...
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