Strange thing is it reads just like St. George and the Dragon.
Well seeing the creature sunk a number of ships, destroyed a fair amount of land and was eating on someone when she showed up...... They had reason enough to fear it.
But this is just one of the "hidden" tails of the Christian fight on pagan religions. The taming of the dragon and killing it is meant to mirror the people of the town leaving their pagan beliefs and changing to Christianity.
I love the description of this creature though.
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a great dragon, half beast and half fish, greater than an ox, longer than an horse, having teeth sharp as a sword, and horned on either side, head like a lion, tail like a serpent, and defended him with two wings on either side, and could not be beaten with cast of stones ne with other armor, and was as strong as twelve lions or bears
http://www.aug.edu/augusta/iconography/ ... martha.htmI may have to go through that site some. Check out the other dragon slaying St.s