Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by Paolo Uccello, c. 1470. A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons. Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system. [1]

The story of Saint George, as the Red Cross Knight and the patron saint of England, slaying the dragon, which represents sin, and Princess Una as George's true love and an allegory representing the Protestant church as the one true faith, was told in altered fashion in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

In briefest terms, Völsunga saga is the tale of the heroic exploits of Sigmund and the fate of his killer, Gudrun. Like St George, of all his many great deeds Sigurd is best remembered as the slayer of a great dragon. After his family are killed in a feud, Sigmund is fostered by Regin, who tells him about his family.

St. George was reported to have slain his first dragon in Africa. Later, in 1098 A.D., he was said to have slain dragons at Mansfeld in the center of Germany. He was also reported to have killed a dragon in Berkshire, England, and the specific location was later named “Dragon Hill.”

2019年4月23日 · The legend of Saint George, patron saint of England, is that of a hero knight who saved a princess and townsfolk by slaying a bloodthirsty dragon. St. George is perhaps one of Christianity’s most famous saints, and is best-known as the patron saint of England.

The legend tells of a dragon causing terror in the city of Silene, Libya, and the people having to sacrifice sheep and eventually humans to the dragon. The king’s daughter was chosen as the next sacrifice, but St George saved her by killing the dragon with a lance.

2019年9月29日 · "Slaying Dragons" underscores our belief that Jesus Christ has conquered Satan but acknowledges that through the misuse of our free will we can still open the door to darkness and evil. This book can be an invaluable tool as we seek to bring the people of God out of darkness and into the Light of Christ.

One of the earliest known dragon slayers was the warrior Siegfried (in the Teutonic version), or Sigurd (Scandinavian version), who lived so long ago that the facts of his dragon-battle are greatly muddled. Some people believe that he slew the dragon Fafnir to rescue a captive maiden; in other accounts he was simply looking for treasure.

2020年2月16日 · Icons of Saint George and the Dragon depict the saint on horseback from the side, sending his spear into a dragon, who lies curled up beneath the hooves of his horse. As time went on, the dragons in Russian icons slowly became more Western in style, a predictable mirror of how Russia slowly accepted a European cultural influence.

In Western mythology dragon slaying represents the act of the questing and conquering hero to destroy an evil creature that guards a hoard or threatens people with its powers. Dragon slaying refers, then, to the act of killing this creature or subduing its power, so that life may go on.