Welcome back to my free coloring pages blog. This blog has around 2400 drawings that you can print and color. I drew almost all of them. About 6 were done by my grand-nephews and a grand-niece. This latest new drawing is a drawing of a Young Danish Dragon Slayer.
Sir Jacobus Lindhart was a well-known Danish Dragon Slayer of the 6th century A. D. He slew his first dragon when he was just 14 years old. This is a drawing of that Dragon Slaying. Jacobus was knighted after this kill. He was the youngest knight in the history of Denmark. He went on to slay 20 dragons in his career. He preferred to be called Sir Jacobus but his official title was Sir Lindhart.
Dragons were real. They are now extinct. The dragons could fly because they could separate water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen components. Hydrogen is way less dense than air and the dragons had pouches of hydrogen in their bodies. The dragons would expel hydrogen and oxygen at the same time. They had teeth with a concentration of heavier metals so they could click their teeth together to make a spark as they began to forcibly exhale the two gasses. Of course, the result was a fire. So dragons really COULD expel fire, but they could not really breathe fire.
Unfortunately for the dragons, their bad behavior of stealing livestock and people, (especially young maidens) made their destruction a priority for the human population. Dragons were susceptible to human weapons. Those medieval weapons may seem primitive to us modern people, but they represented an advanced technology that the Dragons could not cope with.
Vikings in Denmark were using steel 1000 years before Sir Lindhart's lifetime. He lived from 510 to 595 C.E. (formerly A.D.) By the way, Sir Lindhart died of old age. He never was killed by one of the many dragons he fought. So the Vikings in Denmark, Sir Lindhart's ancestors, were using steel around 500 B.C.E (formerly B.C.) And the Vikings were the first to slay dragons, although for a time they tamed and trained Dragons. It is too bad that era came to an end and the Dragons returned to their wild and bloodthirsty ways. None of us in our modern age will ever see a Dragon. It is too bad that the Dragon elimination became necessary. But they would not leave the humans alone. The years of being tame had removed their fear of humans. So the extinction of Dragons was, unfortunately, a necessity.
In this drawing, Sir Lindhard has slain the young dragon. Of course, he himself is quite young as well. You should look closely and you will see that the dragon is not exactly symmetrical. It has long horns that are similar to antlers. But if you look closely you can see that the horns are not symmetrical. Another odd feature of dragons is that their eyes were not exactly symmetrical. One eye was slightly forward on the head compared to the other eye. In the distance, you can see a castle that has been harassed by the attacking local dragons. But the other dragons are withdrawing because whenever one dragon is killed the other dragons sense it and become filled with fear. So Sir Jacobus' killing of this young dragon still saved the kingdom from the attack because the other dragons will not get over their fear for a couple of years or so. By the way, this type of dragon was called a Black Eyed Dragon because its armored eyelids were dark. I chose to not draw the iron-tipped arrow that killed this dragon. It must be assumed that it is under the dragon, or completely imbedded in his body from a shot from down below.
NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus." Dragons are a myth, but does that mean they never existed. Remember that some myths have their basis in fact. Remember that if you scroll down to the bottom of the list after clicking on the "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus" button then you will find this drawing at the end.
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