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St. George and the Dragon: The Complete Legend of England’s Patron Saint | English Folklore for Sleep
St. George and the Dragon: The Complete Legend of England’s Patron Saint | English Folklore for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the legend of St. George, made for falling asleep to.
He is the patron saint of England and he almost certainly never set foot in it. The man behind the legend was a soldier somewhere in the eastern Roman empire, executed for refusing to give up his religion, and for about eight hundred years the dragon had nothing to do with him at all.
That part arrives late — attached to his name in the medieval period, carried west by people coming back from the crusades, and…
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