How To Train Your Dragon A Film Created from Norse Mythology

How To Train Your Dragon is a children’s animation movie created by Dreamworks and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois. Released in 2010, the film features a young viking who through a course of strange events, end up befriending a dragon, going against everything his viking brethren stood for. Struggling to find acceptance, the young viking Hiccup, and his dragon Toothless end up changing both their worlds. This movie is easily one of my favorite films! Beside this film including a wonderful plot line, great celebrity voice actors, and amazing animation, this film also includes something else I enjoy, Mythology! Norse Mythology, to be more precise. You can see the Viking characters looking very similar to that of Norse Gods very early in the film. They wear horned helmets, body armor and carry around round shields. Both men and women are fighting. Their weaponry are axes, swords, spears and hammers, are used by Norse gods. There hair is long and the men have grown long breads as well. Their form of transportation from their island were that of long and slender viking ships. Vikings based their fashion choice around their own beliefs of Norse Gods, so naturally the characters who are Vikings also look much like them. In mutiple times in the movie, there was reference to the Norse Gods, Odin and Thor. Stoick the Vast, leader of the village spoke it in an expression of happiness, â€Å"OH, THOR ALMIGHTY!† At another scene, Gobber, a viking warrior missing his hand andShow MoreRelatedThe Origin Of The Dragon2970 Words   |  12 Pages7 October 2014 Dragons Transformed Dragon have been predominant in many cultures for centuries. Its function may differ culture to culture but its identity has become a universal symbol; we all have the dragon in common. Dragons are everywhere and appear to be the most documented creature in all of ancient history, second to that of the human being (Isaacs 19). These magnificent creatures like any other monster have an origin. Scholars, however, debate the origin of the dragon pointing to several