Note 20 — Chapter V · NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL. (LEFT INN-BANK.)
Reading edition
Colin de Plancy, Légendes des sept pechés capitaux, Appendice; and Nork, Mythologie der Volkssagen, point out that the dragon, sacred to Wodin, was placed on houses, town gates, and belfries, as a talisman against evil influences. See also some remarks on the two-fold character of dragons in mythology in Cox’s Mythology of the Aryan Nations, i. 428.