Most historians say Dracula means Son of the Dragon or Son of the Devil, but it could also mean little devil, and by no accounts this is what the young man was. Think George Remus from Boardwalk Empireor snotty little Viserys pre-coronation in Game of Thrones. This went to Vlad II’s head and he went around calling himself “The Dragon” from that moment on. Vlad II got the moniker because he was knighted into the Royal Order of the Dragon in 1431. His father was Vlad II Dracul, or Vlad the Dragon. His name was a diminutive of his father’s name. Vlad Dracula Tepes was born in Sighișoara, Transylvania, sometime during last two months of 1431. But in 1874, Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri focused on Tepes’ impalements when he wrote “Vlad Tepes and the Oaktree.” Historian Ion Bogdan took it one step further by labeling Dracula a sick sadist in his 1896 work “Vlad Tepes.” Toward the end of the century Ion Budai-Deleanu wrote the poem “Tiganiada” and Dimitrie Bolintineanu wrote the poem “Battles of the Romanians,” both hailing Vlad Tepes as a hero. When Romania became a state in 1859, Vlad was the face of their independence. These were probably made for early Romanian restaurants. The earliest artistic works on Vlad Dracula were visual, wood engravings that show the count dining happily amidst an encroaching throng of the impaled. Dracula is both a staple of horror and a symbol of nationalistic pride. Fun at parties, beloved by common people at the time, he makes Luca Brasi in The Godfather look like a saint. Dracula is known as the guy who supposedly dunked bread in the blood of fallen soldiers and who nailed hats on traveling priests when they didn’t tip theirs. The shadowy guerilla of countless nightmares, Dracula has come to be known as a hero in Romania, which is what we call medieval Transylvania and Wallachia nowadays.īut he is known as Vlad Tepes (Romanian for “the impaler”) because he used to line the road to his castle with the impaled bodies of his conquered foes. But Vlad III was a living legend before he was an undead one. They seem to miss that in Dracula Untold, the latest movie to meld the historic and mythological Dracula. Father and son both belonged to the Royal Order of the Dragon, which was founded by Sigismund of Hungary or Luxembourg, depending on the source, in 1408 to protect Christianity in Eastern Europe. The kind you might see on Xena, only with teeth. Vlad Tepes was the son of a royal warlord. It almost means son of the devil and it almost means son of the dragon.
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