Dragonslayers: from Beowulf to St. George
With its fiery breath, scaly armor, and baleful, malevolent stare, the dragon became the ultimate symbol of evil and corruption in European folklore and mythology. Often serving as a stand-in for Satan, or the power of evil gods, dragons spread death and hopelessness throughout the land. Only heroes of uncommon valor, courageousness, and purity could hope to battle these monsters and emerge victorious. Those that did became legends. They became dragonslayers. The list of dragonslayers is small,…
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- Full title :Dragonslayers : from Beowulf to St. George / author, Joseph A. McCullough ; illustrator, Peter Dennis.
Summary
With its fiery breath, scaly armor, and baleful, malevolent stare, the dragon became the ultimate symbol of evil and corruption in European folklore and mythology. Often serving as a stand-in for Satan, or the power of evil gods, dragons spread death and hopelessness throughout the land. Only heroes of uncommon valor, courageousness, and purity could hope to battle these monsters and emerge victorious. Those that did became legends. They became dragonslayers. The list of dragonslayers is small, but it is filled with great and legendary names. Hercules, Beowulf, Cuchulain, Sigfried, Lancelot, and Saint George all battled to the death with dragons. Other heroes such as the Danish King Frotho, the French Saint Mercurialis, the Polish champion Krak, and the Russian warrior Dobrynya Nikitch might be less well known to western readers, but also fought and defeated dragons. This book will retell the greatest legends of this select group of warriors, while examining the myth of the dragonslayer in a historical, mythological, and even theological context.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Osprey Publishing
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:80 pages : : illustrations (some colour) ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781780967301, 1780967306
- oclc:ocn852657035
- LC Classification:GR830.D7
- Dewey Decimal:398.22 M13d
Table of Contents
Ancient dragonslayers -- Norse dragonslayers -- Holy dragonslayers -- Medieval dragonslayers -- Dragonslayers from around the world.
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