Mirrored Celtic knotwork design with two green and blue dragon heads on a black background, drawn as a tattoo-style flash with no body placement shown.

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Symmetrical Celtic knot dragons

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A symmetrical design of interlaced Celtic knotwork ribbons forming two dragon or serpent heads, one green and one blue, facing each other at the centre. The linework is smooth and uniform, with solid flat fills and no shading, set against a plain black background. The composition is a wide, mirrored V shape with the knots flowing up and outwards at the top.

Celtic knot Knotwork Dragon Serpent Interlace Symmetry

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lamp at Scarrow Head had gone dark three nights running, and when Mairead Coyle climbed the iron stair with a can of paraffin, she found the two serpents waiting on the gallery rail. They lay one above the other like a pair of bell ropes, the green one nearest the glass and the blue one below it, their necks looped together in knots so tight that no tide could have pulled them apart. Neither would look at the other. Each kept its eyes on the channel where the fishing boats came in.

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"You've been shouting at each other since the herring came back," she said. "Shouting over my light." The green one hissed and the blue one turned its head away, and Mairead understood that this was an old quarrel, older than the tower, about which of them had the right to call the ships home. Her grandmother had told her a version of it in which the knots were a promise, tied by a drowned sailor who had asked both serpents to guard the rocks, and who died before he could say which of them should go first.

She set the can down. "Then I'll keep the flame," she said, "and you two can keep the water, and neither of you will need to shout." She trimmed the wick, wound the clockwork, and sent the beam out across the black sea. The serpents stirred. Slowly the blue one loosened its coils, and the green one followed, until their heads drew level and met above the water, nose to nose, like two neighbours who have finally agreed on the price of a boat.

Mairead wrote in the log that the light had burned all night and the sea had been calm. She did not write what she saw at dawn: two heads on the rock, bent together over the lamp, their knots gone loose and bright in the first sun, watching the boats come home.