Old English Water Dragons

Knuckers’ or sometimes, ‘nuckers’ are said to be ‘water monsters’. The word ‘Knucker’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘nicor’, which directly translates to ‘water dragon’.

Knuckers have featured in legends across the ages,one is even referenced in the well-known old-English epic, Beowulf:

“On then went the atheling-born o’er stone-cliffs steep and strait defiles, narrow passes and unknown ways, headlands sheer, and the haunts of the Nicors.”

Beowulf, translation by Frances B. Grummere