![]() The narrative has pre-Christian origins ( Jason and Medea, Perseus and Andromeda, Typhon, etc.), and is recorded in various saints' lives prior to its attribution to St. ![]() The narrative was first set in Cappadocia in the earliest sources of the 11th and 12th centuries, but transferred to Libya in the 13th-century Golden Legend. The saint thereupon rescues the princess and kills the dragon. This was acceptable to the villagers until a princess was chosen as the next offering. When they ran out of livestock and trinkets for the dragon, they started giving up a human tribute once a year. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted tribute from villagers. In a legend, Saint George-a soldier venerated in Christianity-defeats a dragon. Medieval legend Saint George Killing the Dragon, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer (1501/4)
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