> My only disappointment is that antiquity hasn’t blessed us with one or two stories of a brave knight heading off over the hills to rescue a damsel from the clutches of a fierce, fire-breathing worm.
Apart from the fire-breathing part, the story of the Lampton Worm might possibly count.
I remember it from a kids book on dragons that my school library had. And I recognised the retelling of it when much later I came across Ken Russel's weird/cool movie Lair Of The White Worm, where the mythical monster is renamed the Dampton Worm.
> My only disappointment is that antiquity hasn’t blessed us with one or two stories of a brave knight heading off over the hills to rescue a damsel from the clutches of a fierce, fire-breathing worm.
Apart from the fire-breathing part, the story of the Lampton Worm might possibly count.
I remember it from a kids book on dragons that my school library had. And I recognised the retelling of it when much later I came across Ken Russel's weird/cool movie Lair Of The White Worm, where the mythical monster is renamed the Dampton Worm.