Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- heraldic animal
Show 1 more fact
- Commons category
- Guivres
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Guivre
- Vouivre
- Literary use
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
200px|thumb|right|Vouivre. Liber Floridus, 1448.
Guivre (or givre) and vouivre are French names for a type of serpentine mythical creature, by extension a dragon, by some accords, equivalent to a lindworm or wyvern. The names can be used synonymously for the same creature, the former deriving from the latter, or refer to different but similar mythological creatures depending on the myth. In legend they are portrayed as serpentine creatures who possessed venomous breath and prowled the countryside of Medieval France.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guivre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.