The new issue of the New Art Examiner is a your-de-force of articles about dragons and dragon literature and myths around the world. But that was not the most interesting element to the theme because ceramics and paintings exist dealing with every myth. No, the most ingesting thing was the Oxford English Dictionary derivation of the word.
Forms: 3–4 dragun, 3–6 dragone, dragoun(e, 4 dragowne, 4– dragon.
[a. F. dragon:—L. dracōn-em (nom. draco), a. Gr. δράκων, -οντα; usually referred to δρακ- strong aorist stem of δέρκεσθαι to see clearly.]
To see clearly? Doesn’t that give a whole new spin to the serpent in Eden myth.
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