I feel sorry for some of those rather sweet looking wee dragons but this one is an altogether scarier proposition. The fact that it has crapped itself however makes it a tiny bit more sympathetic.




It's from the Storkyrkan in Stolkholm and attributed to Bernt Notke (1489). The statue, commissioned to commemorate the Battle of Brunkeberg (1471), also serves as a reliquary, containing relics supposedly of Saint George and six other saints; Saint Blasius, Saint Germanus, Saint Leo, Saint Martinus, Saint Donatus and Saint Cyriacus.

I'm with Harry Bailey on "relics".
http://crossref-it.info/textguide/the-pardoners-prologue-and-tale/12/1423

The trailer has dropped for the Game of Thrones prequel which is based on George R R Martin's fake history book about the fictional Targaryen dynasty and I think a novella called The Princess and the Queen.  I haven't read the books and don't think I will, partly because I don't want to be 'spoiled' and in part because I'm a bit miffed that GRRM cranked out the prequels instead of finishing the original A Song of Ice and Fire saga.  Dragons don't feature in the trailer but my understanding (as much as someone who hasn't read the prequels can judge) is about the period of Targaryen 'history' when the dragons became extinct.

LadyinRetirement wrote:

The trailer has dropped for the Game of Thrones prequel which is based on George R R Martin's fake history book about the fictional Targaryen dynasty and I think a novella called The Princess and the Queen.  I haven't read the books and don't think I will, partly because I don't want to be 'spoiled' and in part because I'm a bit miffed that GRRM cranked out the prequels instead of finishing the original A Song of Ice and Fire saga.  Dragons don't feature in the trailer but my understanding (as much as someone who hasn't read the prequels can judge) is about the period of Targaryen 'history' when the dragons became extinct.

Never read the novella either, but the basic story appears in Fire and Blood, about the Targaryen Civil War, aka The Dance of Dragons in which two factions of the Targaryen family, and their Dragons, fight it out.

The three headed dragon symbol does feature in the trailer but I notice for the new series the dragon symbol at least has four legs as well as wings.  Dany's dragons in GoT were technically wyverns because they had two legs an two wings.