In Fáfnismál, the hero Sigurd stands before the mortally wounded body of the dragon Fáfnir, and states that Fáfnir lies in pieces, where " Hel can take " him.

Sigurd, undaunted, stabbed Fáfnir in the left shoulder as he crawled over the ditch he was lying in and succeeded in mortally wounding the dragon.

If we omit from consideration the vast and vague Encircler of the World, Miðgarðsormr, the doom of the great gods and no matter for heroes, we have but the dragon of the Völsungs, Fáfnir, and Beowulf's bane.

In the Norse tales the hoard originates from a dwarf named Andvari, thence passes to Odin, and then to Hreidmar ( Hreiðmarr ), and then to Hreidmar's son Fáfnir who changes into dragon form, and from him to Sigurd ( Siegfried ).

Later in his life, Beowulf is himself king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

One day, fifty years after Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother, a slave steals a golden cup from the lair of an unnamed dragon at Earnaness.

The Last Survivor describes the many treasures left for the dead such as the weapons, armour and golden cups, strongly paralleling Scyld ’ s “ well furbished ship ..., bladed weapons and coats of mail ,” Hildeburg ’ s kin ’ s “ blood-plastered coats of mail boar-shaped helmets ” and Beowulf's treasure from the dragon.

An example from the later Middle Ages is Dieudonné de Gozon, third Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, famous for slaying the dragon of Malpasso.

There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and which is ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.

The English word " dragon " derives from Greek δράκων ( drákōn ), " dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake ", which probably comes from the verb δρακεῖν ( drakeîn ) " to see clearly ".

The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.

In Norse mythology, the dragon Fafnir ( best known in the form of a dragon slain by Sigurðr ) bears on his forehead the Ægis-helm ( ON ægishjálmr ), or Ægir's helmet, or more specifically the " Helm of Terror ".

There were two distinct classes of Viking ships: the ' longship ' ( sometimes erroneously called " drakkar ", a corruption of " dragon " in Norse ) and the ' knarr '.

In Germanic mythology, serpent ( Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr ) is used interchangeable with the Greek borrowing dragon ( OE: draca, OHG: trahho, ON: dreki ).

Níðhöggr gnaws the roots of Yggdrasil in this illustration from a 17th century Icelandic manuscript. Similarly Níðhöggr ( Nidhogg Nagar ) the dragon of Norse mythology eats from the roots of the Yggdrasil, the World Tree.

In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr ( Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg ) is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.

* The computer-game Magicka is based on Norse mythology, players fight the dragon ' Fafnir ' later in-game.

* Norse dragon

The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm ( Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr ), meaning snake or serpent.

In Norse mythology, Gram ( Old Norse " wrath ") is the name of the sword that Sigurd ( Siegfried ) used to kill the dragon Fafnir.

It shows two Norse dragon heads ( as seen on the gables of Borgund stave church ).

* In Norse mythology, Odin transformed Svipdag into a dragon because Svipdag had angered him.

The name ‘ Ormskirk ’ is Old Norse in origin and is derived from Ormres kirkja, from a personal name, Ormr ( which means " serpent " or dragon ), and the Old Norse word for church.

Obviously the name means “ aboriginal abyss ,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “ the Deep .”< p > The Chinese legend tells us that P ’ an-Ku ’ s bones changed to rocks ; his flesh to earth ; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals ; his hair to herbs and trees ; his veins to rivers ; his breath to wind ; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, — which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat .< p > Illustrations of P ’ an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane ; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss .< p > When the earth had thus been shaped from the body of P ’ an-Ku, we are told that three great rivers successively governed the world: first the celestial, then the terrestrial, and finally the human sovereign.

Lindworm ( cognate with Old Norse linnormr ' constrictor snake ', Norwegian linnorm ' dragon ', Swedish, lindorm, Danish, lindorm ' serpent ', German Lindwurm ' dragon ') in British heraldry, is a technical term for a wingless bipedal dragon often with a venomous bite.

Generally, the word lindworm stood for the Latin word draco ( whence Norse dreki ), thus could refer to any draconic creature, from a real life constrictor snake to a legendary dragon.

But in the Titans version, he summons the dragon Nidhogg to defeat the Norse Titan Ymir.

In Norse iconography, the depiction of a horse carrying a chest was sufficient to represent Grani carrying the treasure after Sigurd had slain the dragon Fafnir.

The title refers to Ouroboros ( Jörmungandr in Norse mythology ), the snake or dragon that swallows its own tail and therefore has no terminus ( in Old English, the word " worm " could mean a serpent or dragon ).

According to the Poetic Edda and the Völsunga saga, Sigurd accidentally tasted dragon blood while roasting the heart of Fafnir.

* Rather unlikely but very popular is the connection to a dragon saga ( see Lindworm ) and the connection with the monastery of Saint George the “ Dragon Slayer ” founded in Limburg.

* The Nibelungenlied, an epic poem in Middle High German, tells the saga of Siegfried / Sigurd, who killed a dragon on the Drachenfels ( Siebengebirge ) (" dragons rock "), near Bonn at the Rhine and of the Burgundians and their court at Worms, at the Rhine and Kriemhild's golden treasure, which was thrown into the Rhine by Hagen.

Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks relates that Hjörvard, the son of Arngrim, promised at his bragarfull to wed Ingeborg the princess of Sweden, and the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok relate that the Geatish jarl Herraud promised his daughter to anyone who could liberate her from a dragon or talk to her in its presence.

The monster in Hrólf Krakis saga, however, is quite unlike the Grendel of Beowulf ; but it does have characteristics of a more typical dragon, a creature which appears later in Beowulf.

Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

While the dragon has often served as China's national emblem, internationally the panda appears at least as commonly.

The series follows a teenage high school girl named Hitomi, who finds herself pulled from Earth to the planet Gaea when a boy named Van appears on the high school track while battling a dragon.

The dragons were created by Morgoth during the First Age, when Glaurung, the first dragon, appears.

For example, in the Story of Zhou Chu, about the life of a Jin Dynasty warrior, he is said to have killed a " dragon " that infested the waters of his home village, which appears to have been a crocodile.

According to the myth, every time he conquered another tribe, he incorporated his defeated enemy's emblem into his own, thus explains why the dragon appears to have features of various animals.

In modern times, belief in the dragon appears to be sporadic at best.

Manda is a large Chinese dragon that appears in the Godzilla storyline.

, is a fictional dinosaur ( referred to as a dragon at times ) who appears in video games published by Nintendo.

Völsung appears in the 2011 video game " Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim " as one of eight dragon priests with his mask of the same name.

He appears as a dragon blocking the course of the Rivers and is heroically slain by Indra.

The theme also appears in the story of the life of Saint Margaret, where the saint emerges unharmed from the belly of a dragon.

The dichotomy of magic and science appears when Smrgol teaches Peter how to be a dragon in magical terms, whilst Peter explains them with principles of science ; and in later approaches of each character to similar subjects.

He swears his vengeance against the Cluefinders, and as he walks away with his dark mood unappeased, the real Mathra appears behind him, roars, and spouts fire, hinting that Mathra could be a dragon.

A mutant, two-headed deep dragon named Zz, pora appears in the " Starlight and Shadows " series.

Maleficent's dragon form as it appears in the climax of the film.

Despite the frequent presence of Saint George, the Dragon rarely appears in these plays, though it is often mentioned ; a dragon seems to have appeared in the Revesby Ploughboys ' Play in 1779, along with a " wild worm " ( possibly mechanical ), but it had no words to say.

In the few instances where the dragon appears and speaks, its words can be traced back to a Cornish script published by William Sandys in 1833.

A dragon also appears on the badge of the George Cross on the flag of Malta, and the Chinese flag also featured a dragon during the Qing Dynasty.

Inari also appears in the form of a snake or dragon, and one folktale has Inari appear to a wicked man in the shape of a monstrous spider as a way of teaching him a lesson.

His patron saint, Saint George appears on the coat of arms of Moscow slaying a dragon.

Lake Biwa is famous for Chikubushima, where Taira no Tsunemasa performs at the Benzaiten shrine, whose deity appears in the form of a white dragon.