Romanus

(St.), a Norman bishop of the seventh century, is depicted fighting with a dragon, in allusion to the tale that he miraculously conquered a dragon which infested Normandy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

Romany

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