[204] Lucan, Pharsalia, Book ix. 726-32.
[205] Book xvi. chap. x.
[206] Book xv. chap. v.; A.D. 355.
[207] Lord Lytton, King Arthur, Book i. Stanza 4.
[208] Chamber’s Cyclopædia, 1881.
[209] J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, vol. ii. p. 653.
[210] A dragon without wings is called a lintworm or lindworm, which Grimm explains to mean a beautiful or shining worm (here again we have a corroboration of the idea of the gold and silver dragon given ante.)
[211] Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
[212] Rev. Dr. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, London.
[213] The Harleian Collection of Travels, vol. ii. p. 457. 1745.