Quote Originally Posted by delablake View Post
they were prominent in the crappy movie King Arthur...as seemingly Sarmatian stuff...but I wouldn't go so far as to say it could be accurate
Well, by the timeframe of that movie the draco was pretty universally used by Roman horse. Plus several other "barbarian" groups too AFAIK.

One theory regarding the later popularity of St. George I've seen mentioned actually went that this was due to the peasants symbolically associating the dragon he slays in the story with the standard carried by all those armies who ravaged their farms and raped their women...