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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 dragon had to be presented in a way that the audience would be absolutely stunned." [3] After the completion of principal shooting, a special-effects team of 80 people at ILM studios in northern California worked eight months in producing 160 composite shots of the dragon. Chris Walas sculpted and operated the dragon head used for close-up ...
The iconography of military saints Theodore, George and Demetrius as horsemen is a direct continuation of the Roman-era "Thracian horseman" type iconography.The iconography of the dragon appears to grow out of the serpent entwining the "tree of life" on one hand, and with the draco standard used by late Roman cavalry on the other.
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, in the Nordic countries with the epithet "Fáfnir's bane" (Danish: Fafnersbane, Icelandic: Fáfnisbani, Norwegian ...
Dragon Slayer (ドラゴンスレイヤー, Doragon Sureiyā) is a series of role-playing video games by Nihon Falcom. The first Dragon Slayer game is an early action role-playing game , released in 1984 for the NEC PC-8801 and ported by Square for the MSX . [ 1 ]
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Dragon Slayer (roller coaster), located at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa; Coach (Survivor contestant) (born 1971), reality TV personality who refers to himself as the "Dragon Slayer" Dragon Slayer, a fictional sword wielded by Guts in the manga series Berserk
A story tells of a dragon in the island of Rhodes, Greece, hiding in the local swamp and killing the cattle of the local farmers. Despite the orders of the previous Grand Master not to disturb the beast, Gozon slew the dragon and hung the head on one of the seven gates of the medieval town of Rhodes. The head was on display until around 1837 ...