[122] Mallet (Northern Antiquities, ch. ix) says, “The thick misshapen walls winding round a rude fortress, on the summit of a rock, were often called by a name signifying Serpent or Dragon. Women of distinction were commonly placed in such castles for security. Thence the romancers invented so many fables, concerning princesses of great beauty guarded by dragons and afterwards delivered by young heroes, who could not achieve their rescue till they had overcome those terrible guards.”
[123] Anon, Parag.
[124] Brydson’s Summary View.
[125] Probably, also, by frightening their horses, to throw their ranks into confusion.
[126] By an oversight in the drawing some small vestiges of wings have been omitted.
[127] Barons’ War, p. 168.
[128] ‘Sir Degore.’ Warton’s Hist. Poet., p. 180, ibid.
[129] Barons’ War, p. 169.
[130] “Regius locus fuit inter draconem et standardum.”
[131] Barnes’s Hist. Edw. III.