Pendragon
From Zeugma
Pendragon in C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy is one of the names for Ransom. The name is in referrence to Uther Pendragon and Arthur Pendragon. Pendragon specifically comes from either Uther or his brother seeing a dragon shaped comet and thereafter using the dragon as their symbol. Arthur is surnamed Pendragon. Lewis uses Pendragon as one of Ransom's names in an attempt to allude to him as the archetypal Arthurian ruler and savior figure. - SP
==Modern Technology of "Pendragon"==
I was very suprised to find that there is actually a RPG (role-playing game, i.e. "Dungeons and Dragons" or "Magic the Gathering") entitled <a href="http://www.white-wolf.com/pendragon/index.php?line=news&articleid=513">Pendragon</a>, first published in 1985 by Chaosium, in which players take on the role of knights performing chivalric deeds in the tradition of Arthurian legend. Apparently it's a popular game, giving Arthurian nerds the chance to get medieval on each others asses. -M.D.
<img style="float: right;" title="Pendragon Packaging" src="http://www.white-wolf.com/admin/upload_files/GreatPendragonCampaignLarge.jpg" alt="Game Box" width="496" height="635" />
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‘Pendragon’ is a Welsh title for a chief or leader. Pendragon originally means something along the lines of ‘head dragon’ or ‘chief dragon’. Merlin gave this title to King Arthur’s father, Uther, who was henceforth called Uther Pendragon. In medieval Arthurian literature he remained the only one to carry the title. ‘Logres’ is derived from Lloegyr, the ancient Welsh name for what came to be called England (Angle-land) from the ninth or tenth century onwards – or at least for that part which was associated with King Arthur. In Charles Williams’s Arthurian poems, a tradition of Companies of Logres is just about to start rather than being an age-old phenomenon. A twentieth-century Pendragon of Logres is probably an original idea of Lewis. -Source http://www.solcon.nl/arendsmilde/cslewis/reflections/e-thsquotes.htm
-DY
