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The word "dragon", contemporaneously also appear: Old English: draca, Old West Norse: dreki, Old East Norse: draki, Old High German: trahho, tracho, tracko, trakko, meaning "dragon, sea serpent or sea monster" etc, stemming from Latin: dracō, meaning "big serpent or dragon", itself from Ancient Greek: δράκων (drákōn) of the same meaning.
The name compounds Germanic lind with worm, the latter meaning "snake, dragon" (see Germanic dragon). The meaning of the prefix lind is also uncertain, perhaps it is from the Proto-Germanic adjective *linþia-, meaning "flexible", or perhaps it is from the Old Danish/Old Saxon lithi, Old High German lindi, "soft, mild" (Middle High and Low ...
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 Drak (German:), Drâk, [1] Dråk, [2] Drakel or Fürdrak (either for-Drak or fire Drak), in Oldenburg also Drake (f.), is a household spirit from German folklore often identified with the Kobold [3] or the devil (German Teufel), [4] both of which are also used as synonymous terms for Drak.
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 ...
Dragoon is occasionally used as a verb meaning to subjugate or persecute by the imposition of troops; and by extension to compel by any violent measures or threats. The term dates from 1689, when dragoons were being used by the French monarchy to persecute Protestants , particularly by forcing Protestants to lodge a dragoon ( dragonnades ) in ...
Dragons are such a popular figure in China, and there are even a number of Chinese idioms that reference them, including: “A dragon’s pool and a tiger’s den," meaning you're entering a ...
The sword breaks while Beowulf fights the dragon at the end of the epic. [46] Refil Old Norse: Refill: Perhaps meaning "grater" or "strip". [47] A sword belonging to Regin in Skáldskaparmál. [48] He owns it just before Fafnir turns into a dragon, and flees with it. [48] Rose Middle High German: Rôse: MHG rôse ("rose"), indicating "the most ...