We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.