Dragonslayer

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] They continue to be popular in modern books, films, video games and other forms of entertainment. Dragonslayer-themed stories are also sometimes seen as having a chaoskampf theme - in which a heroic figure struggles against a monster that epitomises chaos.

  1. ^ Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. University of California Press. 1977. p. 27. ISBN 0-520-03537-2.

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