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by Apocryphon 809 days ago
> Medieval knights used to wander around hoping for honorable adventures to pop up so that they could demonstrate their bravery.

That is a loose pop historical way of describing the chivalric tradition, but it did exist in some fashion. The dragon reference also exists in a passage that is being airily allegorical, you're all being overly anal about accuracy.