Pendragon
Name in Arthurian literature
Pendragon, composed of Welsh pen, 'head, chief, top' and dragon, 'dragon; warriors'; borrowed from the Greco-Latin plural dracōnēs, 'dragons', is a Middle Welsh epithet meaning 'chief of warriors'. It is the epithet of Uther, father of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain in medieval and modern era and occasionally applied to historical Welsh...
