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Diverse visible remains of five rows of dragon's teeth west of Aachen; Armoured walls at the Aachener Schneeberg and at the Aachen-Visé railway line; Observation post near Aachen-Schleckheim; Five rows of dragon's teeth near Aachen-Köpfchen; Bunker in the Iterbach valley near Walheim; Bunker in the Aachen Forest near Entenpfuhl - Regelbau SK6/a
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, Old High German: wurm), meaning serpent, are archaic terms for dragons (Old English: dracan, Old Norse: dreki, Old High German: trahho) in the wider Germanic mythology and folklore, in which they are often portrayed as large venomous ...
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (= western bulwark), was a German defensive line built during the late 1930s. Started in 1936, opposite the French Maginot Line, it stretched more than 630 km (390 mi) from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland.
Franz Heilmeier (born 20 October 1930) was a German sailor who was a helmsman of the West German Dragon team, which took the 4th place in Dragon event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. [1] He was born in Dießen am Ammersee .
Russian anti-tank obstacles near the horizon, Kherson Oblast, May 2022. Dragon's teeth on the left, Czech hedgehogs on the right In Belgorod Oblast, defensive lines of dragon's teeth were constructed in October 2022 under the supervision of the Wagner Group along the Russia–Ukraine border, intended as a second line of defense alongside trenches and a trained militia in the event the ...
Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr [ˈsiɣˌurðr]) or Siegfried (Middle High German: Sîvrit) is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon—known in some Old Norse sources as Fáfnir—and who was later murdered.
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 ...
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.