But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.