I’m beginning to wonder if according to some ancient calendar the year 2016 is perhaps the Year of Dragons? Anyway I seem to have stirred a few of them during this month of January!
The first week after New Year, I (re)watched (on DVD) the three movies based on Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
I copied this image from Google search but it is the same cover as on my own paperback copy from the mid 1970s sitting in my bookcase.
I also (re)watched the last of the Harry Potter films, where there’s a dragon playing a part too.
A week ago I received this postcard from South Africa – with photos from Drakensberg = Dragon Mountains.
Yesterday, on the charming blog The Postal Adventures of Morris Mouse there was an interesting new blog-postcard throwing light on the world-wide phenomenon of dragons and ... let’s say, creatures of related kind.
And today, further evidence of dragon activity reached me by mail, in the form of a Postcrossing card from Russia:
“Winter dragon” by Anna Loch
"Here be dragons" means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a supposed medieval practice of putting dragons, sea serpents and other mythological creatures in uncharted areas of maps. [Wikipedia]
It's interesting, isn't it, how sometimes things seem to occur to us in clusters, like your dragons at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI found the bit about the dragon in the last Harry Potter book rather upsetting at first, but wonderfully solved, and so well done in the film.
I agree. It's a bit like when you learn a new word. Suddenly it seems to appear in every text you read! ... Have to admit the dragon cluster may not be completely random, though, as of course I knew there were dragons in those films, and I also mention dragons on my postcrossing wishlist! :)
ReplyDeleteyours are the first dragons i have seen. i love the post card. i do agree with your reply about seeing something new and then see it everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI found the fact about 'Here be Dragons' most interesting because although it's a well-used saying I had no idea of it's origin. It's so obvious when you know though.
ReplyDeleteGraham, I'm not sure but think it may actually have been via your brother I first took note of the expression... :)
DeleteWhat would really have worried me is if it had been me that had told you!
DeleteFunny, Graham! :) Mind you, I quite often now find old posts of my own in the Linkedwithin gadget on my blog that I've totally forgotten that I ever wrote. Believe it or not! ;)
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