Another query. A fourteenth century Icelandic saga about St. Nicholas, the Latin source(s) of which have not been found, tells how St. Nicholas has three dream-visions. In the third of them, the archangel Michael (who has a church in town, where at least one miracle takes place) appears to Nicholas as ‘a noble man sitting on a beautiful horse, fully armed like a dubbed knight, having a blooming rod in his hand engraved and beautifully shaped with the holy sign of the cross’ to reveal to him things that ‘have not yet happened in the world’ and provide interpretations for his earlier dreams. This is an unusual iconography for Michael (who identifies himself as the archangel in the dream) - I wonder if anyone has run across it anywhere? Better yet, is the source of this material known? A reference to archdeacon John of Bari would appear to be a traditional part of the legend.