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Dragon’s Hill (Berkshire)

is where the legend says St. George killed the dragon. A bare place is shown on the hill, where nothing will grow, and there the blood of the dragon ran out.

In Saxon annals we are told that Cedric, founder of the West Saxon kingdom, slew there Naud, the pendragon, with 5,000 men. This Naud is called Natan-leod, a corruption of Naudan ludh (Naud, the people’s refuge).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Drachenfels (Dragon-rocks)
Draconian Code
Draft
Draft on Aldgate (A)
Drag in, Neck and Crop
Draggle-tail
Dragoman (plural, Dragomans)
Dragon
Dragon Slayers
Dragon of Wantley (i.e. Warncliff, in Yorkshire)
Dragon’s Hill (Berkshire)
Dragon’s Teeth
Dragonades
Dragoons
Drake
Drama
Drama of Exile (A)
Dramatic Unities (The thrée)
Dramatis Personæ
Drap
Drapier’s Letters