THE LEDGENDS OF LINCONSHIRE
The Castle Carlton Dragon
The Castle Carlton dragon was slain by Sir Hugh Bardolfe, who fought the creature during a thunderstorm. A flash of lightning dazzled the dragon long enough for Sir Hugh to strike its one vulnerable spot, a wart on one of its legs.
Sir Hugh Bardolfe lived here in the time of Henry I. It is said in a very old court roll, that in the first year that Sir Hugh was lord of this place, ' ther reigned at a toune called Wormesgay a dragon in a lane in the field that venomed men and bestes with his air ; sir Hugh uppon a weddings day did fyght with thys dragon, and slew hym, and toke hys heade, and bayre it to the kynge, and gave it hym, and the kynge for slaying of the dragon put to his name this word dolfe, and did call hym afterwards Bardolfe ; for it was before sir Hughe Barde, and also the kynge gave hym in his armes then a dragon in sygne.
The Castle Carlton Dragon
The Castle Carlton dragon was slain by Sir Hugh Bardolfe, who fought the creature during a thunderstorm. A flash of lightning dazzled the dragon long enough for Sir Hugh to strike its one vulnerable spot, a wart on one of its legs.
Sir Hugh Bardolfe lived here in the time of Henry I. It is said in a very old court roll, that in the first year that Sir Hugh was lord of this place, ' ther reigned at a toune called Wormesgay a dragon in a lane in the field that venomed men and bestes with his air ; sir Hugh uppon a weddings day did fyght with thys dragon, and slew hym, and toke hys heade, and bayre it to the kynge, and gave it hym, and the kynge for slaying of the dragon put to his name this word dolfe, and did call hym afterwards Bardolfe ; for it was before sir Hughe Barde, and also the kynge gave hym in his armes then a dragon in sygne.
CAMDEN. Camden's Britannia . . . enlarged ... by Richard Gough. Second Edition. Vol. II. 1806.
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