The Knight of the Round Table Confronts the dragon

Lancelot du Lac
Michel Gonnot, copyist , Ca. 13th century
BnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 112 (3) fol. 23
Photo © Bibliothèque Nationale de France
A sign of the reverence devoted to dragons is their use as emblems: red and white dragons of the Welsh and Saxons, drakkars of the Vikings, Mongol flags, spears of Roman cohorts... and, later, a large number of medieval coats of arms. Naturally that dragons found their place in the heraldry of the fantasy world, for example on the seal of the Targaryen family.