Chained to a Rock by (1869).A dragonslayer is often the hero in a ' tale. In this type of story, the dragonslayer kills the dragon in order to rescue a high-class female character, often a princess, from being devoured by it. This female character often then becomes the love interest of the account.
One notable example of this kind of legend is the story of, who slays a giant serpent, thereby rescuing the maiden, whom he later marries.There are, however, several notable exceptions to this common motif. In the legend of, 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, rather than Saint George being married to the rescued princess character.In a Norse legend from the, the dragonslayer, kills - a dwarf who has been turned into a dragon as a result of guarding the cursed ring that had once belonged to the dwarf,. After slaying the dragon, Sigurd drinks some of the dragon's blood and thereby gains the ability to understand the speech of birds.
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He also bathes in the dragon's blood, causing his skin to become invulnerable. Sigurd overhears two nearby birds discussing the heinous treachery being planned by his companion,. In response to the plot, Sigurd kills Regin, thereby averting the treachery.Mythologists such as have argued that dragonslayer myths can be seen as a psychological metaphor:'But as Siegfried Sigurd learned, he must then taste the dragon blood, in order to take to himself something of that dragon power. When Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted the blood, he hears the song of nature. He has transcended his humanity and re-associated himself with the powers of nature, which are powers of our life, and from which our minds remove us.Psychologically, the dragon is one's own binding of oneself to one's own ego.'
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