Note 47.1 — Chapter XVII · THE RESCUE OF ANDROMEDA IN SAGAS.
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The islanders of Sardinia have a Saint George of their own, who was bishop of Suelli. In the commune of Sant’ Andrea Frius, a village in the province of Cagliari, is a tract called “the Plain of Blood,” where grew a reddish plant, said to have been tinged by the blood of the dragon, whom this very saint slew there.47.1 This is an instance in which coincidence of name has been the cause of confusion.