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The wyvern (/ ˈ w aɪ v ər n / WY-vərn, sometimes spelled wivern) is a type of mythical dragon with two legs, two wings, and often a pointed tail. [ 4 ] The wyvern in its various forms is important in heraldry , frequently appearing as a mascot of schools and athletic teams (chiefly in the United States , United Kingdom , and Canada ).
The words "guivre" (wurm, wyvern [which is derived from it], [2] or serpent) and "givre" are spelling variations of the more common word "vouivre". Vouivre, in Franc-Comtois , is the equivalent of the old French word "guivre."
A two-seat variant known as the X-02S Strike Wyvern, which added an internally mounted electromagnetic launcher (EML) appears in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. X-49 Night Raven: An advanced experimental fighter aircraft with a closed flying wing design. It is equipped with a laser cannon, and requires its pilot to undergo artificial nerve surgery ...
The Westland Wyvern is a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s, seeing service in the 1956 Suez Crisis. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers , and could carry aerial torpedoes .
A dragon or wyvern is often used to represent Wessex, and a flag featuring a gold wyvern on a red field is used to represent Wessex. [ 5 ] In the present era, the white dragon symbol is sometimes associated with St Edmund , and those who commemorate him.
A cockatrice is a mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon, wyvern, or serpent-like creature with a rooster's head. Described by Laurence Breiner as "an ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans", it was featured prominently in English thought and myth for centuries. They are created by a chicken egg hatched by a toad or snake.
Wyvern Barracks, a military installation in Exeter, Devon, England; Wyvern College, the name of two colleges in England; Wyvern House, a day school in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Wyvern Theatre, in Swindon, Wiltshire, England ”Wyvern School”, C.S. Lewis’ pseudonym for Wynyard School, the public school he attended
There exist several related offshoots of the winged lindworm outside Northern and Central Europe, such as the French guivre, and to some extent the British wyvern. The French guivre, earlier vouivre, are more dragon-like than the traditional lindworms while the British wyvern is canonically a full-fledged dragon.