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Military Fashion: Comparative History of the Uniforms of the Great Armies from the 17th Century to the First World War. Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 978-0214653490. Pavlovic, Darko (1999). The Austrian Army 1836–66 (2) Cavalry. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1855328006. Reid, Howard (2001). Arthur the Dragon King: Man and myth reassessed. Headline ...
The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe.. The Roman poet Virgil in his poem Culex lines 163–201, [1] describing a shepherd battling a big constricting snake, calls it "serpens" and also "draco", showing that in his time the two words probably could mean the same thing.
The medieval dragon is depicted as an evil, hideous monster always associated with evil. In Latin, draco means both dragon and serpent; the dragon is linked to the serpent and in particular to the tempter of Genesis, who drove Adam and Eve to taste the forbidden fruit. [5] Medieval encyclopedias therefore classify it as a serpent. [6]
A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (3rd century BC): the dragon guarding the golden fleece (Book 2), and the dragon whose teeth can be sown like seed to make an army grow (Book 3). [ 1 ] Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca (after 1st century BC): the sea monster Perseus slays to rescue Andromeda, and the dragon guarding the apples of the Hesperides ...
Urnes-style runestone U 887, Skillsta, Sweden, showing a runic dragon and a bipedal winged dragon.. Worms, wurms or wyrms (Old English: wyrm, Old Norse: ormʀ, Old High German: wurm), meaning serpent, are archaic terms for dragons (Old English: dracan, Old Norse: dreki, Old High German: trahho) in the wider Germanic mythology and folklore, in which they are often portrayed as large venomous ...
The Draco Normannicus (Norman Dragon) is a chronicle written c. 1167–1169 by Étienne de Rouen (Stephen of Rouen), a Norman Benedictine monk from Bec-Hellouin. [1] Considered Étienne's principal work, it survives in the Vatican Library .
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