Dragons and Earthquakes

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When I'm troubled or anxious, I tend to watch a lot of disaster videos. It keeps me amused, but really doesn't do much for my anxiety or help me sleep better at night. Sometimes it's tornados, floods or volcanoes. This week it's been earthquakes. I had no idea England had frequent earthquakes! They're too mild to cause much damage, which is why they don't make international news. But it may shed light on a legend associated with Arthurian mythology, of Vortigern and a boy with a number of names. You probably know him as Merlin. Here is the legend as Wikipedia tells it. The rest of the article is available here:

[According to legend, when Vortigern fled into Wales to escape the Anglo-Saxon invaders, he chose a lofty hillfort as the site for his royal retreat. Every day his men would work hard erecting the first of several proposed towers; but the next morning they would return to find the masonry collapsed in a heap. This continued for many weeks until Vortigern was advised to seek the help of a young boy born of a virgin mother. The King sent his soldiers out across the land to find such a lad. The boy they found was called Myrddin Emrys (Merlin Ambrosius). Vortigern, following the advice of his councillors, was planning to kill the boy in order to appease supernatural powers that prevented him from building a fortress here. Merlin scorned this advice, and instead explained that the hill fort could not stand due to a hidden pool containing two vermes (dragons). He explained how the White Dragon of the Saxons though winning the battle at present, would soon be defeated by the British Red Dragon. After Vortigern's downfall, the fort was given to alias Emrys Wledig (Ambrosius Aurelianus), hence its name.]

 

Dragons fighting under the earth as an explanation for earthquakes? Its as good a theory as any, and makes for great poetry as well.