Wyvern folklore is rarely fire-breathing like the four-legged dragon. Sometimes modern fantasy book and media authors have wyverns that are frost-breathing or poison-breathing instead of fire-breathing. The current spelling "wyvern" is not attested before the seventeenth century as "winged two-footed dragon". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is an alteration of Middle English "wyver" (attested thirteenth century), from Anglo-French "wivre" (cf. French "guivre" and "vouivre"), which originate from Latin "vīpera", meaning "viper", "adder", or "asp". Conversely, medievalist William Sayers proposes a more complex origin for the term. He notes that the Anglo-French "guivre" and its Middle English derivative ceased to
Wyvern College, Wiltshire Wyvern College, Wiltshire Wyvern College is a secondary school in Laverstock, near Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire, for boys aged 11 to 16. The school was created as "Highbury Secondary School" after the re-organisation of the local education system in 1972/3 when the former "Highbury Avenue Secondary Modern School" became "Fisherton Manor Middle School". It remained a secondary school for boys aged from 11 to 16, and by 1994 there were 530 on the school roll. In 1995, it was renamed "Wyvern College", and operates as a highly specialised Technology College for boys. It teaches all National Curriculum