Historical Dragon Notes

Just some quick copy-and-paste notes for myself (mostly from wiki probably) on European Dragons.

• Wiki on European dragon 
• Wales: Red Dragon dominates it when awake. 
• Saxons: White Dragon? 
• Saint_George_and_the_Dragon. Selinus/Silene (idolatrous emperor of Lasia (a city in what would be Libya) - daughter Sabra to be sacrificed to poisonous Dragon, rescued by St. George) 
•  Golden Dragon of Wessex: Sigurd kills a dragon (Fafnir was changed into a dragon by a ring): Andvaranaut 
• Landvættir: the benevolent dragon with whom King Harald Bluetooth's servant met in Vopnafjörður according to Heimskringla, and also depicted on the Icelandic Coat of Arms. 
• Melusine (serpent- or fish-woman from the Low Countries?)
• he most famous Polish dragon (Polish: Smok) is the Wawel Dragon or Smok Wawelski, the Dragon of Wawel Hill. It supposedly terrorized ancient Kraków and lived in caves on the Vistula river bank below the Wawel castle. 
• Cuélebre, or Cuelebre, a giant winged serpent in the mythology of Asturias and Cantabria in the north of Spain 
• Herensuge is the name given to the dragon in Basque mythology, meaning "last serpent". For instance, the first bishop of the city of Forlì, Saint Mercurialis, was said to have killed a dragon and saved Forlì.
• Likewise, the first patron saint of Venice, Saint Theodore of Tyro, was a dragon-slayer, and a statue representing his slaying of the dragon still tops one of the two columns in St. Mark's square. 
• St. Michael, the patron saint of paratroopers, is also frequently depicted slaying a dragon. 
•  One of the most famous dragons of Italian folklore is Thyrus, a wyvern that besieged Terni in the Middle Ages.
• St. Margaret of Antioch killed one from the inside 
• St. Gildas (lot of various notes here including etymology)