(04-02-2023, 09:58 PM)Ninurta Wrote: In reference to it's neck, the author mentions that part to be "an elle long". At that time, an "ell" was 45 inches. Descriptions of arrows caried by the natives in the colony of Virginai mentioned they were "an ell long, and headed with a sharpe peece of stone, or a birds beake, or the scales of a fishe", and that the shaft was constructed of river reeds, as told by William Strachey in 1614. When I researched that, I found out an ell was a length of 45 inches.
"Four rodde" is about 66 feet, a prodigious distance for a mere 9 foot dragon to spit poison!
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I was of the understanding a 'rodde' was about a yard or more in length. Meaning a 'rod' or measure stick. Switch or 'cane rod'. "Faggot' meaning a bundle of sticks or rodde/s which we tied together to carry on ones back. Then again I'm Aussie and bastardize the King/Queen's English.
"I cart mine faggot to the rear made up of one score of rodde."
Then again I cut wood for small change.
Kind regards,
Bally
