• needed] Critics have interpreted the poem as addressed to Saddam Hussein. Iraqi literature 1996 in poetry Text of "The Dragon" with commentary and links Rahman...
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  • Dragon (Дракон) is a poem by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, written in the spring and summer of 1875 and first published in Vestnik Evropy October (#10)...
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  • "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (or just "Puff") is a song written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary from a poem by Leonard Lipton. It was made popular...
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    The final act of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf includes Beowulf's fight with a dragon, the third monster he encounters in the epic. On his return from...
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  • The Tale of Custard the Dragon is a poem for children written by Ogden Nash. A picture book of the 1936 poem with illustrations by Lynn M. Munsinger was...
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  • the Magic Dragon or variation, may refer to: "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (song) is a 1963 song by Peter, Paul and Mary based on the eponymous poem "Puff, the...
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  • Dragon, dragon, dragón, or drag on in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with reptile-like traits. Dragon may...
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    A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through...
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    Beowulf (redirect from Beowulf (poem))
    Beowulf (/ˈbeɪəwʊlf/; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative...
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    the Magic Dragon" was first a poem by Leonard Lipton and adapted by Peter Yarrow. The poem tells of an ageless dragon who befriends a young boy, only...
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    European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe. The Roman poet Virgil in his poem Culex lines...
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    Sigurd in Old Norse tradition) who kills a dragon and takes its hoard. In Beowulf, the dragon that the poem's eponymous hero is awoken from the burial mound...
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    with an unnamed dragon killed by a Völsung in other Germanic works including Beowulf, the Nibelunglied and a number of skaldic poems. Fáfnir and his killing...
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  • Dragon magazine. The issues were 1,2,3,5,6,7. This poem is included in the book Dragons of Autumn Twilight. This poem is included in the book Dragons...
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    the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (700–1000 CE). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition...
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  • Old English: Wīġlāf [ˈwiːjlɑːf]) is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is the son of Weohstan, a Swede of the Wægmunding clan who had...
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  • Wikisource has original text related to this article: End Poem (full text) The End Poem is a poem by Julian Gough that appears in the end credits of the...
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  • Níðhöggr (category European dragons)
    traditionally also spelled Níðhǫggr [ˈniːðˌhɔɡːz̠], often anglicized Nidhogg) is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the world tree, Yggdrasil. In historical Viking society...
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  • dramatic death scene. The story ends with the Dragon being accepted into society, to which the Dragon recites a poem: "I promise not to rant or roar, and scourge...
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  • Beowulf (2007 film) (category Animated films about dragons)
    Zemeckis, written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and featuring the voices of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin...
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    2nd-century BC Greek poet Nicander of Colophon. It is a 958-line hexameter poem describing the nature of venomous creatures, including snakes, spiders and...
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    English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is a legendary Geatish hero in the eponymous epic poem, one of the oldest surviving pieces of English literature. A number of origins...
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  • Smaug (category Fictional dragons)
    Smaug (/smaʊɡ/) is a dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, his treasure and the mountain he lives in being the goal...
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    (2013-05-16). Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong. Lexington Books. pp. 134–140. ISBN 978-0-7391-7783-9. Poem translated into...
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  • and city. Anima — poems about women. The Seven-Headed Dragonpoems about the larger-than-life poet and his quest. Equinox — poems on religious themes...
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    and the heroic poems on Urien Rheged by Taliesin almost certainly date in origin to the sixth century.: 285  The Welsh term draig, 'dragon' was used to...
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    Lactantius Placidus commentary became the most common medieval commentary on the poem by Statius and is transmitted in most early editions up to 1600. The commentary...
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    (1771–1832) mentions the white dragon in his poem "The Saxon War Song": Whet the bright steel, Sons of the White Dragon! Kindle the torch, Daughter of...
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    Could Wish which won the European Multi-Media Award (EMMA) in 1995, Dragon Poems and Winnie the Witch. His anarchic yet detailed work, executed with bright...
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    that Regin smiður is based on a lost Eddic poem. The Faroese ballads include Sigurd's slaying of the dragon and acquiring of the hoard, his wooing of Gudrun...
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