Dragonslayers

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With its fiery breath scaly armour & baleful malevolent stare the dragon became the ultimate symbol of evil & corruption in European folklore & mythology. Often serving as a st&-in for Satan or the power of evil gods dragons spread death & hopelessness throughout the l&. Only heroes of uncommon valour courageousness & purity could hope to battle these monsters & emerge victorious. Those that did became legends. They became dragonslayers. The list of dragonslayers is small but it is filled with great & legendary names. Hercules Beowulf Sigurd & Saint George all battled to the death with dragons. Other heroes such as Cadmus founder of the city of Thebes Dieudonne de Gozon the Knight of Rhodes & the Russian warrior Dobrynya Nikitich might be less well known to western readers but also fought & defeated dragons. This book retells the greatest legends of this select group of warriors while examining the myth of the dragonslayer in historical mythological & even theological contexts.