Dragon of the north12/11/2023 Here were dreadful forewarnings come over the land of Northumbria, and woefully terrified the people: these were amazing sheets of lightning and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. It mentions dragons of the flying kind in its account of the Viking raid on Lindisfarne, Northumbria: This version is an 11th-century copy, probably made in Worcester.” – click on the link to go to the page and view the A-Sx Chronicle pages and transcription. It was the first attempt to give a systematic year-by-year account of English history, and it was later maintained, and added to, by generations of anonymous scribes until the middle of the 1100s. “This national chronicle, or annual record of events, was originally compiled around 890 during the reign of King Alfred the Great. I’ve reproduced their intro to this text here: (Not the original – this copy was produced in Worcester). ![]() The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions dragons as bad omens, not doing anything except being pretty ominous, and the British Library has a copy dating from 1020. I’ll kick off with a historical source, just for fun.
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