The above is the precis to a collection of papers. Little more can be gleaned from the papers which require wading through pages of old English handwriting.
It would be a considerable accolade to any scholar to prove that the Midlock Dragons were the original source of the St George and the Dragon legend.
Possibilities
1 The legend is mostly true, but the dragons were in fact a group of astral entities known as lloigor. George was an investigator of an earlier century and, armed with considerable magics, vanquished the lloigor. The lloigor would like to return, but the stone circle from which they drew their power was disrupted.
2 George did not fight any true dragons, but instead freed Midlock from the tyrannical reign of a local landowner. The description of the battle hints that the ‘dragons’ used magic, and there is still some of this lying around in the old manor.
3 There was a battle of some sort, but no concrete evidence to say whether this is the true source of the legend or not.
© Steve Hatherley
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