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West Central German (German: Westmitteldeutsch) belongs to the Central, High German dialect family of German. It includes the following sub-families: Central Franconian (Mittelfränkisch) Ripuarian (Ripuarisch), spoken in North Rhine-Westphalia (including Kölsch) and German-speaking Belgium and a small edge of the south of the Dutch province ...
Urnes-style runestone U 887, Skillsta, Sweden, showing a runic dragon and a bipedal winged dragon.. Worms, wurms or wyrms (Old English: wyrm, Old Norse: ormʀ, ormr, Old High German: wurm), meaning serpent, are archaic terms for dragons (Old English: draca, Old Norse: dreki, Old High German: trahho) in the wider Germanic mythology and folklore, in which they are often portrayed as large ...
Central German or Middle German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) is a group of High German languages spoken from the Rhineland in the west to the former eastern territories of Germany. Central German divides into two subgroups, West Central German and East Central German. Central German is distinguished ...
According to the 19th-century English archaeologist Charles Boutell, a lindworm in heraldry is basically "a dragon without wings". [12] A different heraldic definition by German historian Maximilian Gritzner was "a dragon with four feet" instead of usual two, [13] so that depictions with - comparatively smaller - wings exist as well.
The name is from MHG trache (dragon) and felse ("rock, cliff, stronghold on a mountain"); the form in the Þiðreks saga may show Middle Low German influence. [69] The Þiðreks saga locates the giant Ecke here. The name only occurs in the Þiðreks saga, but other indications suggest that the Ecke legend was placed on the Rhine in German ...
The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch [ˈhoːxˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃ] ⓘ) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein ...
Five rows of dragon's teeth in the area of the Hotel Relais Königsberg; Bridge design of the five rows of dragon's teeth at the dam of the Dreilägerbach; Bunker for water supplies near Lammersdorf hunting lodge; Diverse visible remains of five rows of dragon's teeth between Lammersdorf and Monschau. Remains of a movable barrier near Lammersdorf
A Drachenried (dragon's fen) and Drachenloch (dragon's cave) are to the west of the village, and a Drachenkapelle (dragon chapel), also known as Winkelriedkapelle dedicated to Struth is south of the village, next to Wychried, the probable site of the original Winkelried estate. The story is probably a recontextualisation of a much older dragon ...