dragonslayer

Also known as dragon slayer, dragon killer

thumb|right|Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by [[Paolo Uccello, ]]

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Tolkien's legendarium
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thumb|right|Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by [[Paolo Uccello, ]]

A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons. Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system. They continue to be popular in modern books, films, video games and other forms of entertainment. Dragonslayer-themed stories are also sometimes seen as having a chaoskampf themein which a heroic figure struggles against a monster that epitomises chaos.