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The story of Saint George, as the Red Cross Knight and the patron saint of England, slaying the dragon, which represents sin, and Princess Una as George's true love and an allegory representing the Protestant church as the one true faith, was told in altered fashion in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
Goodreads.com calls Saint George and the Dragon "the perfect way to introduce a classic tale to a whole new generation of readers." [3] Steve Barancik of "The Best Children's Books" says "St. George appears scratched. The dragon loses some bloody appendages. Thus, make your own decisions about sharing the book with younger children."
St. George and the Dragon, free illustrated book based on 'The Seven Champions' by Richard Johnson (1596) Archnet; Saint George and the Dragon links and pictures (more than 125), from Dragons in Art and on the Web; Story of Saint George from The Golden Legends; Saint George and the Boy Scouts, including a woodcut of a Scout on horseback slaying ...
The story of Saint George and the Dragon is one of many stories of the saints preserved in the Golden Legend. The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda aurea or Legenda sanctorum) is a collection of 153 hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in Europe during the Late Middle Ages. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have ...
In Russia, the story of Saint George and the Dragon passed through the oral tradition of religious poems (dukhovny stikhi) sung by minstrels and fused the story of the martyrdom of the saint with the Western legend of the liberation of the princess from the dragon. [47]
The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St. George did fight a dragon). In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, poetry-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk ...
The Magic Sword (also known as St. George and the Dragon, St. George and the Seven Curses, the film's original title, and The Seven Curses of Lodac) is a 1962 American adventure fantasy film directed by Bert I. Gordon [1] that is loosely based on the medieval legend of Saint George and the Dragon.
Saint George and the Dragon by Bernt Notke. Saint George and the Dragon (Swedish: Sankt Göran och draken) is a late medieval wooden sculpture depicting the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, located in Storkyrkan in Stockholm, Sweden. It is attributed to Bernt Notke and was commissioned by the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Elder. It was ...
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