Subgenus
Pendragon
Otiorhynchus ovatus. Photo: (c) Stuart Tingley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Pendragon or Pen Draig (Middle Welsh pen dragon, pen dreic; composed of Welsh pen, “head, chief, top” and draig/dragon, “dragon; warrior”; borrowed from the Latin word dracō, plural dracōnēs, “dragon”) literally means “Chief-Dragon” or “Head-Dragon”, but in a figurative sense, “chief leader”, “chief of warriors”, “commander-in-chief”, “generalissimo”, or “chief governor”. is the epithet of Uther, father of King Arthur in medieval and modern Arthurian literature and occasionally applied to historical Welsh heroes in medieval Welsh poetry,…
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