The setting for Dragonsbane was in about the 1400's in a place called Wyr.
Jenny John and Gareth are the main characters. Jenny is a wizard women who is always trying to advance her skills but still isn't very good. John is Jenny's husband and is also a dragon's bane, which means that he has slayed a dragon. Gareth is a prince who's hero is John. And final Zyerne, she is also a wizard women whom is the most powerful in the land.
Gareth comes up from the South to ask of John's assistance in slaying a dragon that is threatening the King's lands. John decides to go with him and talk to the king.
When they get there they find out that Zyerne is holding the king under some sort of spell and using him for her bidding.
John talks to the king and gets ready to slay the dragon. He asks Jenny to make the most powerful poisons she can and then dips his harpoons in it. John then rides off to slay the dragon. When the battle his over Jenny goes out to were the battle happened and finds the dragon and John lying in bloody pools and realizes that john is still alive. She takes him back to camp and puts healing spells on him. She then goes back to the dragon and sees that he is still alive to. The dragon told her that if she healed him that he would tell her where the books of healing were in the caves called the deep so she could heal John. She agrees and the dragon through telepathy shows her the way in the maze of tunnels.
It is always said to save a dragon is to slave a dragon for life. So Jenny saved the dragon and John.
Zyerne was waiting for them to kill the dragon so she could take over the deep because of the huge amounts of gold in them. So Zyerne came and tried to kill the dragon and Jenny but failed and she was killed.
The dragon through all of this fell in love with Jenny and asked her to turn into a dragon and return with him to were the dragons lived. She decided that she would turn into a dragon and return with him.
In Grendel, when he meets with the dragon, he believes that the dragon is "flattering me into tormenting them " (Gardner 73) with his talk of Grendel being man's condition. ... Grendel does not want to be the bane of man's existence, but he knows that if he stops terrorizing the humans, someone else will just take his place. ...
But I in none of these Find place or refuge; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel 120 Torment within me, as from the hateful siege Of contraries: all good to me becomes Bane, and in Heaven much worse would be my state." ... In addition, Heaney adds in mythological aspects, such as the creature Grendel and the dragon. ... He fights Grendel, Grendel's mother, and then the dragon. ... These devices are shown frequently throughout Beowulf, such as when Beowulf is fighting the dragon. "The dragon began to belch out flames/and burn bright homesteads; there was ...
Slaying the great dragon was not only Beowulf's last act of courage, but also Wiglaf's first. ... -- though thou waste the bane of thy brethren dear For I say in sooth, thou son of Ecglaf if heart of thine were as battle-bold as thy boast is loud! ...
