Dragons… It has been so long. The last dragon story of kinds was the serpent crown in the summer of 2012 and the last proper dragon tale was back in spring of 2012, a seventeenth-century Essex wyrm. Here, instead, is a fascinating but potentially dodgy source for a twelfth- or thirteenth-century dragon: a letter sent to a newspaper in 1933! Its author, David Rose was an established Scottish antiquarian, who wrote, however, on some unusual themes including the Loch Ness Monster and a suspect earthquake. Beach first ran across this story in Roland Watson’s The Water Horses of Loch Ness and found the full letter typed up by Ron Patrick from Ontario. It was apparently published in The Scotsman 1 Jan 1934, perhaps in the wake of the Nessie frenzy that had engulfed the Highlands the year before: David Rose had sent it 28 Dec 1933.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
DR BEACHCOMBING: The dragon of Dornich
Dragons… It has been so long. The last dragon story of kinds was the serpent crown in the summer of 2012 and the last proper dragon tale was back in spring of 2012, a seventeenth-century Essex wyrm. Here, instead, is a fascinating but potentially dodgy source for a twelfth- or thirteenth-century dragon: a letter sent to a newspaper in 1933! Its author, David Rose was an established Scottish antiquarian, who wrote, however, on some unusual themes including the Loch Ness Monster and a suspect earthquake. Beach first ran across this story in Roland Watson’s The Water Horses of Loch Ness and found the full letter typed up by Ron Patrick from Ontario. It was apparently published in The Scotsman 1 Jan 1934, perhaps in the wake of the Nessie frenzy that had engulfed the Highlands the year before: David Rose had sent it 28 Dec 1933.
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