Re: Anglesey
Posted: 7:21 am
'Dragon' sounds like quite a recent title.... which the Welsh 'called themselves' or were called by other people? Their chief claim to fame is mining so it would be an appropriate enough tag if the dragon/metalworking metaphor is accepted.
It seems these 'geographical margins' are akin to industrial areas where people from all over congregate, i.e. busy important places that people generally try to avoid (for aesthetic, health, congestion reasons) but not marginal. Somewhere with a distinct barrier like Hadrian's Wall or the Great Wall of China are simply frontiers, i.e. actual margins. A frontier that coincides with important territory is asking for trouble, look at the Jordan River!
It seems these 'geographical margins' are akin to industrial areas where people from all over congregate, i.e. busy important places that people generally try to avoid (for aesthetic, health, congestion reasons) but not marginal. Somewhere with a distinct barrier like Hadrian's Wall or the Great Wall of China are simply frontiers, i.e. actual margins. A frontier that coincides with important territory is asking for trouble, look at the Jordan River!