#george and the dragon

[thefugitivesaint]

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872), ''Der Nibelunge Noth'', 1843 Source

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Val's unique sword fighting style ⚔️

(some say he's the greatest swordsman who ever lived)

(My gifs)

(Source wiki)

The juggling sword fighting style was canonically passed on to his kids Kit and Airk in the willow series.

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday James 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

James Brian Mark Purefoy

June 3,1964

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

3 Giugno 1964

[georgefairbrother]

George and the Dragon, made by ATV and written by sitcom stalwarts Vince Powell and Harry Driver, was first broadcast this month (November 19th) in 1966. It ran for four successful series and a total of 26 episodes until 1968.

It starred John Le Mesurier as Colonel Maynard, a likeable but absent-minded aristocrat (a neat blueprint for Sgt Wilson in Dad's Army); also Sid James as the scheming chauffeur George, Peggy Mount as cook-housekeeper (and George's nemesis), Gabrielle Dragon, and Keith Marsh (later Jacko in Love Thy Neighbour) as Ralph the gardener. It was a classic 'comfort watch', with great warmth and chemistry between the cast, who appeared to have great fun making it.

Keith Marsh was the last surviving member of the Maynard household, he passed away in 2013. Sid James died on stage at the Sunderland Empire in 1976, John Le Mesurier, to use his own words, 'conked out' in 1983, and Peggy Mount in 2001.

[hanssloane]

A little dragon sits under the restraining hand of St George.

Salisbury Cathedral, West Door

James Redfern c1868

[williamsjakesd]

Cool shower

[fuzzysparrow]

Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Farleigh Hungerford Castle is a medieval fortress located in Somerset, England. The castle was built in two stages, starting in 1377 by Sir Thomas Hungerford (d. 1397), who amassed his wealth as John of Gaunt’s (1340-99) steward and speaker of the House of Commons. Sir Thomas’s son, Sir Walter Hungerford (1378-1449), expanded the castle until he died in 1449. Despite periods of the castle held by…

[visenya-targarye]

it's always a lannister beefing with a child

(honorable mention)

[maypoleman1]

23rd April

St George’s Day

St George and the Dragon by Raphael (1505). Source: Wikipedia

Today is St George’s Day. All that is known about George with any certainty is that he died on this day in Lydda in third century Palestine. He was rumoured to have quit the Roman army in order to practice his Christian religion and then travelled to Asia Minor where he came across a kingdom terrorised by a dragon who was demanding a regular feast of humans in return for not devastating the land. The victims were chosen by lot and eventually the king’s daughter herself was selected to be the dragon’s next meal. George rode to the damsel’s rescue and mortally wounded the beast with his lance but did not finish the creature off until George had extracted a promise from the king and his people to convert to Christianity. This clear fairy story made George a somewhat problematic saint which the church never took entirely seriously and it dispensed with him altogether in 1969. However during the Crusades, George became adopted by Richard I as patron saint of God’s soldiers and made his way with the returning Crusaders to England, becoming so popular that in the fourteenth century, Edward III made him England’s patron saint.

George soon replaced various spring pagan deities (the dragon being a symbol of winter) and began to feature in Christmas and Easter mumming plays as a killed-and-resurrected character. The dragon at least features on the 23rd during Norwich’s Mayor’s Day, as Snap, a decidedly pagan hobby-horse manifestation, leading the Mayor’s procession but being refused entry to the church. Snap would then wait on the so-called Dragon’s Stone for the duration of the service, menacing passers-by with his snapping wooden jaws. He liked to steal headwear, and lunged at schoolchildren who ducked and shouted ‘Snap, Snap! Steal a boy’s cap!’. The original pageant is no more, but a Snap costume, dating to the fifteenth century resides in Norwich’s Castle Museum and the procession itself has now transferred to July.

[dabblesco]

St. George, or naming characters and the sometimes sensitive outcomes of this

Happy St. George’s Day! I do hope you are celebrating with something tasty, or wrestling dragons, or scaring snakes, or whatever suits your fancy. St. George was one of the saints responsible for soldiers, as well as one of those fighting plague and leprosy. He, coincidentally, was born on the same day as Shakespeare (if you can believe any facts about that latter mystical person). So he would…

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[roslynn777]

rhaenyra targaryen 👑🐉

[polartss]

the house with the gay dragons??

[jeyne-arryn]

Phia Saban gave a wrenching, powerful, heart-breaking performance as Helaena Targaryen, Aegon’s doomed, haunted queen and mother to his children.

George R.R. Martin - NOT A BLOG: Blood, Cheese, and Grief (July 5, 2024)

[mileenaxyz]

Okay...now...hold on....

[slaughter-kin]

yeah