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The Saint George and the Dragon legend describes the saint taming and slaying a dragon that demanded human sacrifices; the saint thereby rescues the princess chosen as the next offering.

Only a kernel of the legend occurs in the ancient hagiography of Saint George dating to the 7th century or earlier. Here, a monarch referred to as "dragon of the abyss" persecutes the saint. The dragon-slaying may have been transferred from the legend attached to St. Theodore.

The earliest known narrative of the full dragon episode is an 11th-century Georgian text. "Iconographical" artistic depictions that match the story in its important elements occur in the contemporaneous period in Georgia, corroborating the legend's possible origin there. The dragon-slaying St. George (without the princess) existed much earlier.

From its Eastern origins, it was introduced into Western Christian tradition, possibly by the Crusades. The earliest Latin text may be of the late 12th century, but the story was not popularized until the mid-13th century when the legend in appeared in Speculum Historiale and the Golden Legend, and thereafter became a favourite literary and pictorial subject in the Late Middle Ages. The legend has become part of the Christian traditions relating to Saint George.