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a Dragon like creature from French mythology, with a venomous bite, Guivre meaning wyvern or wyrm, or even serpent which the creatures name is derived from. Peluda La Velue, cover of a French pamphlet (1889) Also known as The Shaggy Beast, or La Velue, a legendary dragon from La Ferté-Bernard that shot deadly quills from its back. Germanic ...
The greatest of the winged dragons. Created by the Dark Lord Melkor. Destroyed by Eärendil during the War of Wrath. Balerion. A Song of Ice and Fire. George R.R. Martin. Nicknamed the black dread he was the greatest dragon in Westeros history. Rode by Aegon I Targaryen. Caraxes.
Gary Gentile, A Time For Dragons (1989), Dragons Past (1990), and No Future For Dragons (1990): Various dragons. Rick Cook, Wizard's Bane (1989), LRD, little red dragon guards the compiler book. Jean Marzollo, Baby Unicorn and Baby Dragon (1989): A young dragon named Moon to match the crescent mark on his head.
The name also migrated to Eastern Europe, assumed the form "azhdaja" and the meaning "dragon", "dragoness" or "water snake" in the Balkanic and Slavic languages. [44] [45] [46] Despite the negative aspect of Aži Dahāka in mythology, dragons have been used on some banners of war throughout the history of Iranian peoples.
This is a list of lists of dragons. List of dragons in mythology and folklore. Dragons in Greek mythology. Germanic dragon. Slavic dragon. European dragon. Chinese dragon. Japanese dragon. Korean dragon.
The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe. The Roman poet Virgil in his poem Culex lines 163–201, [1] describing a shepherd battling a big constricting snake, calls it "serpens" and also "draco", showing that in his time the two words probably could mean the same thing.
The word dragon derives from the Greek δράκων (drakōn) and its Latin cognate draco.Ancient Greeks applied the term to large, constricting snakes. [2] The Greek drakōn was far more associated with poisonous spit or breath than the modern Western dragon, though fiery breath is still attested in a few myths.
List of Germanic dragons. Níðhöggr is a dragon attested in the Eddas that gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil and the corpses of Náströnd. [4][14] Jörmungandr, also known as the Midgard Serpent, is described as a giant, venomous beast and the child of Loki and Angrboða. [12][15][14] Fáfnir is a widely attested dragon that has a prominent ...