Dragonslayer
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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
Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by Paolo Uccello, c. 1470
Perseus Delivering Andromeda by Émile Bin (1865)
Susanoo slaying the Yamata no Orochi, by Kuniteru
The Dragonslayer (Copper door 1974) by German artist Klaus Rudolf Werhand
Saint George and the Dragon
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Saint George and the Dragon is a legend in which Saint George—a soldier venerated in Christianity and among the Druze—defeats a dragon. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted tribute from
Dragonslayer
…rescuing the maiden, Þóra borgarhjörtr, whom he later marries. There are, however, several notable exceptions to this common motif. In the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, for example, Saint George overcomes the dragon as part of a plot which ends with the conversion of the dragon's grateful victims to Christianity…
Saint George Killing the Dragon, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer (1501/4)
Thracian horseman with serpent-entwined tree (2nd century)
Funerary relief of a Roman cavalryman trampling a barbarian warrior (4th or 5th century). Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Fenestrella interpreted by the Louvre as Horus on horseback spearing Set in the shape of a crocodile (4th century)