Answers to the talking meme, 3

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thenewbuzwuzz asked If you were a mythological creature, what kind would you be and why?

A dragon! I’ve loved dragons since I was a small child. I always felt it must be fun to be able to breathe fire and fly.

Here, have my favourite dragon as a bonus. It’s a wooden sculpture of St. George and the dragon located in the church Storkyrkan in Stockholm. To get a sense of scale I can tell you that St George and the horse are life-sized. It’s made of oak, but the sculptor makes creative use of moose’s antler on the dragon and there is also metal, parchment and human hair! The dragon is a hermaphrodite and is birthing baby dragons even in it’s death throes, who are playing around on the dead bodies of the dragon’s previous victims. Very ghoulish.



The sculpture is attributed to Bernt Notke and was finished around 1489. It was commissioned by the regent, Sten Sture the Elder and it is thought his features are on St george and his wife’s on the accompanying sculpture of the princess. Nowadays she looks on from a castle, but originally she had a little rock. On the castle her father the king was standing. The rock is long gone, but the king have been found at Castle Gripsholm. It is also a portrait, of King Karl Knutsson Bonde (Fun fact: he is one of my ancestors).