I have just written my piece about St George and the dragon and a few things occurred to me.
The first and obvious is that these myths often include the saving of a princess. The woman who would marry the next king and give birth to heirs, so in effect the saving of the princess is the saving of the state. The other things is that errant knights were well armed roaming the countryside. Who fed them? Who kept their armour clean? Probably the poor. Which means that like the roaming samurai they were far more likely to steal, demand and rape than protect.
I began to see the knight and not the dragon, was more likely the true beast.
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