Love Stockholm!

Great day in Stockholm...yesterday! I posted pics, but no commentary! In a nutshell:
We visited the Nobel Prize Museum so that we could see the prize information and photos of the doctor that Katie worked under at the NIH that was awarded the Nobel. Loved the museum!
We went to the Lutheran cathedral called Storkrykan which was stunningly beautiful. It had the most beautiful wood carving that included antlers and horse hair of St. George slaying the dragon. Will try to do a copy and paste of the legend at the end of this entry.
Ate lunch one more time at the Italian place that we loved!
Took a canal tour of Stockholm....absolutely fabulous! Still can't get over seeing people swimming...we had our coats on!
Shared an unbelievable meal with the Bunners at a Swedish cuisine restaurant. And Barry and I both had reindeer! Barry's was carpaccio and mine was roast beef!
Stockholm is a great city that I could easily live in......in the summer!

According to the Golden Legend, the narrative episode of Saint George and the Dragon took place in a place he called "Silene", in Libya; the Golden Legend is the first to place this legend in Libya as a sufficiently exotic locale, where a dragon might be imagined. In the tenth-century Georgian narrative, the place is the fictional city of Lasia, and it is the godless Emperor who is Selinus.[7]
The town had a pond, as large as a lake, where a plague-bearing dragon dwelled that envenomed all the countryside. To appease the dragon, the people of Silene used to feed it two sheep every day, and when the sheep failed, they fed it their children, chosen by lottery. It happened that the lot fell on the king's daughter, who is in some versions of the story called Sabra.[8] The king, distraught with grief, told the people they could have all his gold and silver and half of his kingdom if his daughter were spared; the people refused. The daughter was sent out to the lake, decked out as a bride, to be fed to the dragon.[citation needed]
Saint George by chance rode past the lake. The princess, trembling, sought to send him away, but George vowed to remain. The dragon reared out of the lake while they were conversing. Saint George fortified himself with the Sign of the Cross,[9] charged it on horseback with his lance, and gave it a grievous wound. He then called to the princess to throw him her girdle, and he put it around the dragon's neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a meek beast on a leash.[citation needed]
The princess and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the people at its approach. But Saint George called out to them, saying that if they consented to become Christians and be baptised, he would slay the dragon before them. The king and the people of Silene converted to Christianity, George slew the dragon, and the body was carted out of the city on four ox-carts. "Fifteen thousand men baptized, without women and children." On the site where the dragon died, the king built a church to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint George, and from its altar a spring arose whose waters cured all disease.[10]
Traditionally, the sword[11] with which St. George slew the dragon was called Ascalon, a name recalling the city of Ashkelon, Israel. From this tradition, the name Ascalon was used by Winston Churchill for his personal aircraft during World War II (records at Bletchley Park), since St. George is the Patron Saint of England.


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