Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Dragon_(Beowulf)> ?p ?o }
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) abstract "The final act of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is about the hero Beowulf's fight with a dragon, the third monster he encounters in the epic. On his return from Heorot, where he killed Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulf becomes king of the Geats and rules peacefull for fifty years until a slave awakens and angers a dragon by stealing a jewelled cup from its lair. When the dragon mercilessly burns the Geats' homes and lands, Beowulf decides to kill the monster personally. He and his thanes climb to the dragon's lair where, upon seeing the beast, the thanes flee in terror, leaving only Wiglaf to battle at Beowulf's side. When the dragon wounds Beowulf fatally, Wiglaf slays it.This depiction indicates the growing importance and stabilization of the modern concept of the dragon within European mythology. Beowulf is the first piece of English literature to present a dragonslayer. Although many motifs common to the Beowulf dragon existed in the Scandinavian and Germanic literature, the Beowulf poet was the first to combine features and present a distinctive fire-breathing dragon. The Beowulf dragon was later copied in literature with similar motifs and themes such as in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, one of the forerunners of modern high fantasy.The dragon fight, occurring at the end of the poem, is foreshadowed in earlier scenes. The dragon fight symbolizes Beowulf's stand against evil and destruction, and, as the hero, he knows that failure will bring destruction to his people after many years of peace. The scene is structured in thirds, ending with the deaths of the dragon and Beowulf.".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) thumbnail Beowulf_and_the_dragon.jpg?width=300.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink ?id=KdssHU8Bw7sC&dq=Seamus+Heaney+beowulf.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink books?id=ES0Hs75IVg0C.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink v=onepage&q&f=false.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink books?id=_OcVmqTK7vcC.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink books?id=sRlh16FjqU4C.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink books?id=wbzQ97DfsjIC.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink books?id=ES0Hs75IVg0C&pg=PA21.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink books?id=SaFdpGdjvtoC&pg=PA271.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageExternalLink J-R-R-Tolkien-Beowulf-The-Monsters-and-the-Critics.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageID "26995815".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageLength "15660".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageOutDegree "62".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageRevisionID "680843481".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Altruism.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Saxon.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Saxons.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Bard.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Beowulf.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Beowulf_(hero).
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Book_of_Job.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Cain.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Cain_and_Abel.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Anglo-Saxon_paganism.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Characters_in_Beowulf.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_folklore.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_heroic_legends.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fictional_dragons.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geats.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Medieval_legends.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scandinavian_legendary_creatures.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Christian.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Devil.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Dragon.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Dragonslayers.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Elegy.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink English_literature.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Epic_poetry.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Fafnir.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink File:Beowulf_death.png.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Foreshadowing.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Geats.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Grendel.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Grendels_mother.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Hagiography.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Heorot.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Heroic_poem.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink High_fantasy.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink J.R.R._Tolkien.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink J._R._R._Tolkien.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Legend.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Monster.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Motif_(narrative).
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Nocturnal.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Nocturnality.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Norse_mythology.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Old_English.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Oral_tradition.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Plot_device.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Prose.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Rosemary_Sutcliff.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Scandinavia.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Scyld.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Septuagint.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Sigurd.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Skjöldr.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Smaug.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Thanes.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink The_Hobbit.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Thegn.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Troll.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Venom.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Volsunga_Saga.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Völsunga_saga.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink Wiglaf.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink File:Beowulf_and_the_dragon.jpg.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLink File:Ring44.jpg.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Dragon (''Beowulf'')".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Dragon (Beowulf)".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Dragon".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLinkText "The dragon".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLinkText "a dragon".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLinkText "dragon".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageWikiLinkText "unnamed dragon".
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) hasPhotoCollection The_Dragon_(Beowulf).
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Beowulf.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_book.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_web.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refbegin.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refend.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:See_also.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Wikiquote.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Wikisource.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) subject Category:Anglo-Saxon_paganism.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) subject Category:Characters_in_Beowulf.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) subject Category:English_folklore.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) subject Category:English_heroic_legends.
- The_Dragon_(Beowulf) subject Category:Fictional_dragons.