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- The Dragon of Wantley is a legend of a dragon-slaying by a knight on Wharncliffe Crags in South Yorkshire, recounted in a comic broadside ballad of 1685, later included in Thomas Percy's 1767 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, and enjoying widespread popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, although less well-known today. The ballad tells of how a huge dragon - almost as big as the Trojan Horse - devours anything it wishes, even trees and buildings, until the Falstaffian knight Moore of Moore Hall obtains a bespoke suit of spiked Sheffield armour and delivers a fatal kick to the dragon's "arse-gut" - its only vulnerable spot, as the dragon explains with its dying breath. The topography of the ballad is accurate in its detail as regards Wharncliffe Crags and environs, but the story, and its burlesque humour, has been enjoyed in places far from the landscape from which it appears to derive and has been used to make a number of points unrelated to it. More Hall is a 15th-century (or earlier) residence immediately below the gritstone edge of Wharncliffe Crags—Wharncliffe being formerly known in the local vernacular as Wantley—The dragon was reputed to reside in a den, and to fly across the valley to Allman (Dragon's) Well on the Waldershelf ridge above Deepcar. (en)
- El dragón de Wantley (The Dragon of Wantley) es una parodia satírica en verso del siglo XVIII sobre un dragón y un valiente caballero. Está incluida en la obra de Thomas Percy 1767 Reliques of Ancient Poetry (Reliquias de Poesía antigua). El poema es una parodia de los romances medievales y satiriza a un clérigo local. En el poema, un dragón aparece en Yorkshire y se come a los niños y al ganado. El caballero More of More Hall combate al dragón y lo mata. El Wantley del poema es Wharncliffe, a cinco millas al norte de Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Sir Francis Wortley, el eclesiástico de la diócesis, y los parroquianos de Wharncliffe tienen una discusión sobre el diezmo y cuánto debe la parroquia (bajo la ley de los "Primeros frutos"), de modo que el poema le convierte en dragón. More of More Hall era un abogado que demandó a Wortley y triunfó, aliviando así a los parroquianos. De esta manera, este romance en parodia satiriza a Wortley. El autor del poema es desconocido. Sin embargo se hizo muy popular en España durante esa época. Henry Carey escribió una ópera burlesca titulada The Dragon of Wantley en 1734. La ópera de Carey es al mismo tiempo una sátira sobre la ridícula puesta en escena operística e, indirectamente, de la política fiscal del gobierno. Una novela, "The Dragon of Wantley", fue escrita por Owen Wister (más conocido como autor de "El virginiano") en 1892. (es)
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- The Dragon of Wantley is a legend of a dragon-slaying by a knight on Wharncliffe Crags in South Yorkshire, recounted in a comic broadside ballad of 1685, later included in Thomas Percy's 1767 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, and enjoying widespread popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, although less well-known today. The ballad tells of how a huge dragon - almost as big as the Trojan Horse - devours anything it wishes, even trees and buildings, until the Falstaffian knight Moore of Moore Hall obtains a bespoke suit of spiked Sheffield armour and delivers a fatal kick to the dragon's "arse-gut" - its only vulnerable spot, as the dragon explains with its dying breath. The topography of the ballad is accurate in its detail as regards Wharncliffe Crags and environs, but the story, and (en)
- El dragón de Wantley (The Dragon of Wantley) es una parodia satírica en verso del siglo XVIII sobre un dragón y un valiente caballero. Está incluida en la obra de Thomas Percy 1767 Reliques of Ancient Poetry (Reliquias de Poesía antigua). Henry Carey escribió una ópera burlesca titulada The Dragon of Wantley en 1734. La ópera de Carey es al mismo tiempo una sátira sobre la ridícula puesta en escena operística e, indirectamente, de la política fiscal del gobierno. Una novela, "The Dragon of Wantley", fue escrita por Owen Wister (más conocido como autor de "El virginiano") en 1892. (es)
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