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> Fanfiction
+ Dragon Scrolls by Shade the Hero
+ Nightscale by Darling771234
+ My Return by Cutemimiko
+Memoirs of a Dragon Pride by Vampiresswolf
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> Lore
+ Dragons and Dragon Lore by Ernest Ingersoll
+ Origins of the Fire-Breathing Beast by Ian Harvey
+ The Dragon in Ancient China by Mark Cartwright
+DRAGONS: ANCIENT CREATURES IN MODERN TIMES INAUGURAL LECTURE
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> Myths
+ Dragons of Greek Mythology Written by Greek Mythology
+ Dragons And Dragon Kings In Ancient Mythology
+ Dragon MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE
+The Celtic Dragon Myth
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> Novels\Books
+ Temeraire by Naomi Novik
+ Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
+ Nice Dragons Finish Last, by Rachel Aaron
+ Wings of Fire by Tui T
+ Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn
+ The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
+ Dragon Hunter and the Mage by V.R. Cardoso
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+ In the folk-lore of China there is a popular legend that the Chien Tang River was once infested by a great kiau or sea-serpent, and in 1129 A.D. a district graduate is said to have heroically thrown himself into the flood to encounter and destroy the monster. Formerly two dragons were supposed by the Chinese to have been in a narrow passage near Chinaye: they were very furious, and upset boats. According to the Rev.
+ Mr Butler of the Presbyterian Mission in Ningpo, "they had to be appeased by the yearly offering of a girl of fair appearance and perfect body. At last one of the literati determined to stop this. He armed himself and jumped into the water; blood rose to the surface. He had killed one of the dragons. The other retired to the narrow place. A temple was erected to the hero at Peach Blossom ferry."
+ Ludd's dominion was infested by a dragon that shrieked on May-Day Eve. In Wales, St Samson is said to have seized the dragon and thrown it into the sea. Among the Welsh, indeed, a pendragon came to mean a chief, a dictator in times of danger. And if we surveyed the lives of the saints, it would be tedious to enumerate the number who figure as dragon-slayers—all of them active long ere the days of the modern Mediterranean shark!
+ Over the linguistic area covered by the Celtic branches of the Indo-European peoples, legends of contests with monsters have been current from early times. As to their origin, it is difficult to be certain as to how far they may have been transmitted from one people to another. Possibly external influence may be traced in theBruden Dâ Derga, a Gadhelic text from about the eighth century.
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+ The dragon is described in resonant images: the 'old harrower', 'the burning
one' and 'the slick-skinned dragon'. He is both glamorous and highly
dangerous. He possesses fire, an insatiable and baseless hatred for humans,
and a fondness for destruction and chaos, as well as his love of gold. The
dragon does not collect the gold himself, but having found it, he is very happy
to make it his home, and stays there for three hundred years, until he is
disturbed by a miserable thief who steals a golden cup from the hoard,
seeking to regain his lord's favour.
+ The dragon knows his treasure well, and the theft awakens his fury, so that he explodes from the barrow, wreaking revenge in a fiery streak of destruction as he destroys whole villages in a single incandescent night.
+ The 20th-century Christian fantasy writer, C.S. Lewis, enjoyed both Wagner's
music and Norse mythology as a boy in Ireland. He must, then, have known
of Fafnir's transformation and death at Sigurd's hands. In 1952 Lewis
published The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the fourth volume in his
Chronicles of Narnia series. The Chronicles are heavily influenced by
Christian allegory and morality, as is Lewis's modernized Fafnir.
+ As a female dragon, Saphira's sexuality classifies her in the same group as
earlier dragons, such as Echidna, the mother of the dragon Ladon in Greek
mythology, who guards Hera's golden apples and has to be defeated so that
Hercules can fulfil his tasks. Echidna has the head and torso of a nymph, but
her lower body is that of a serpent; and, like many others of her kind, she
loves gold. For her monstrosity and greed, she was banned to a cave at the
bottom of the ocean (from which we can deduce that she was equipped with
aquatic breathing apparatus).
+ The traditional antagonism between humans and dragons has given way to a
psychic partnership. In this speech Glaedr configures the race of dragons as
living embodiments of the old order of nature in Alagaesia, as seen in the fact
that a dragon egg will last forever unhatched, until it senses the presence of a
worthy rider, and in the dragons' immortality. Saphira is also the most
powerful embodiment of nature in the trilogy, through her kinship with the
forest-loving elves and her affinity with wind, water and fire. Dragons have
taken on new powers through their alliance with elves and humans
+ Dragon writers from Europe and America take a great deal of care to establish
the physicality of their dragons, down to counting the number of talons on
each foot on occasions. This chimes well with Chinese and Japanese dragon
lore, which insists that a dragon must exhibit nine resemblances to animals:
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'the horns of a deer, the head of a camel, the eyes of a devil, the neck of a
snake, the abdomen of a clam, the scales of a carp, the claws of an eagle, the
pays of a tiger, and the ears of a cow'.
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