"The local hero, More of More's hall, had a special suite made with spikes so that when he attacked the dragon, the dragon would attack back and be so harmed by the spikes that it'd die." It worked.

See Also Dragon of Galloway.

Ernest Ingersoll, in Dragons and Dragon Lore believes that this tale may be related to an incident of feudal oppression and that the tale has been perpetuated by the peasantry as an allegorical narrative since it it safer that as an actual prose story.