How to Train Your Dragon

 

How to Train Your Dragon is the first book in the series of 12, following Hiccup as he captures a dragon as a rite of passage and attempts to train him so that he will not be exiled from Berk, as is its tradition. The Vikings live on Berk Island. The main character, Hiccup, is the son of a Viking chief who lives on Berk Island. The dragon has constantly invaded this island, which is why battles never stop. Hiccup is hated in the village because he is weak-willed and weak-minded. 

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero.

In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER!

But what if Hiccup's dragon resembles an ickle brown bunny with wings? And has NO TEETH? The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus is stirring and wants to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk . . .

Can Hiccup save the tribe - and become a Hero?

In chapter one Hiccup mentions three different types of dragons; 1. Basic Brown, 2. Common or Garden and 3. Monstrous Nightmare. 

Some keywords from chapter 1 are

* Initiation

* Burglary

* Cliff

* Cave

* Basket

* Exile

If you wake the 3000 dragons in the cave you have to run for the exit as there is a good chance they will not chase you out into the snow as they hate the cold. 

In chapter one the boys are performing an initiation to catch a dragon that hunts fish and deer for them.

"Only the strong can belong" is the saying of the vikings.

Main Characters

• Hiccup Horrendous Haddock The Third (in books 1–12) is the protagonist of the books. He was thought to be useless and weak by everyone, including his own father. They did not understand his intellectual brilliance. He is unusual for a Viking not only physically, being very thin with bright red hair, but also intellectually, as he thinks before he acts and is unusually clever. He is one of the only people ever to understand and be able to speak Dragonese, the language of the dragons. Hiccup was also a very good sword fighter (unique in that he was left-handed) and the best Viking Hero that ever lived. An intelligent and quiet boy, he was picked on the most by the bullies but shows them that he's a capable leader.
• Toothless (in books 1–12) is Hiccup's hunting-dragon who appears in all the story books. He appears to be a green Common-or-Garden Dragon, although Fishlegs spread a false story that he is a near extinct, more vicious relative of the Monstrous Nightmare breed called the Toothless Daydream and possibly the offspring of the mighty dragon ruler King Daggerfangs. He is one of the King's Lost Things. In book 11, it is revealed he is a young Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus.
• Fishlegs (in books 1–12) is Hiccup's best friend and supporting character in a number of books who is allergic to reptiles. He has a squint, asthma, his pet is the only vegetarian dragon on the planet, and he is seen as a wimp, but he has shown himself to be quite cunning when he needs to be. He is also fond of poetry and wants to be a bard in later books. He is not a Hooligan by blood but an orphan who washed up on Berk's shores as an infant, his parentage being a mystery to him until the identities of his mother and father were revealed to him in the tenth and twelfth books respectively. At the end of the final book, he finds his own tribe, the No-Names, and becomes a bard.
• Camicazi (in books 3–12) is a chatty, fierce and a deliberately confusing sword fighter from the tribe of female warriors known as the Bog-Burglars who is a supporting character in a number of books. She is very skilled at escapes and burglary. She is extremely proud of being a member of her tribe and she is also the heir to the tribe. In some ways, she is complementary to Hiccup, in that since she does not think very carefully about the situation, and just rushes in without thinking, so he pulls her back, and she, in return pushes him forward, convincing Hiccup to trust his instincts.
• Stoick the Vast (in books 1–12) is Hiccup's father and leader of the Hairy Hooligans, their tribe. Unlike his son, he is incredibly strong and beefy but rather unintelligent. However, he was originally portrayed as tall and skinny in the book Hiccup: The Seasick Viking. He owned two dragons, Newtsbreath and Hookfang. Hookfang is only mentioned in the first book and Newtsbreath appears for the last time in the second books. Stoick is said to have another dragon called Bullheart who appears exclusively in the ninth book.
• Snotface Snotlout (in books 1–11), is Hiccup's much-despised cousin. He bullies and bosses the others around, especially Fishlegs and Hiccup whom he addresses as "Hiccup the Useless and his fishlegged failure of a friend". He is top class at 'Bashyball', 'Advanced Rudery' and 'everything else'. His dragon is a brilliant scarlet Monstrous Nightmare named Fireworm, who because of her breed should technically belong to Hiccup (as the son of the Chief) according to ancient Viking law. He gets killed in an attack at the end of Book 11 in an attempt to help Hiccup become King of the Wilderwest. Later, Hiccup silently forgives Snotlout for the years of rivalry between them. Upon Hiccup informing the Vikings of his sacrifice, he is posthumously honored by the Vikings as a hero.
• Valhallarama (in books 1, 5, 10-12) is Hiccup's mother. She appears in only a few books, and is often away Questing. She once loved Humungously Hotshot the Hero and gave him a ruby heart necklace (which turns out to be one of the King's Lost Things). She reappears in Book 10 to help Hiccup become King of the Wilderwest.
• Gobber The Belch (in books 1-12) is the Viking in charge of the Viking Initiation Programme (later on the Pirate Training Programme) and is described in book 5 as "a six-and-a-half-foot ax-wielding lunatic who was not the kind of teacher you argued with". At the beginning of the first few books, he gives his lessons in extreme situations, such as a storm in book 2. In later books, he is an extremely loyal member of the Company of the Dragonmark (Hiccup's followers to become King of the Wilderwest).

Vikings

• Dogsbreath the Duhbrain (in books 1-10) is Snotlout's friend and sidekick bully. He is usually seen following Snotlout's orders, usually the difficult and tedious jobs. He is not very intelligent and does not talk much. His dragon is a Gronckle named Seaslug.
• Mogadon the Meathead (in books 1, 2, 5, 9, 10 and 12) is Chief of the Meathead Tribe, close neighbors of the Hairy Hooligans. A man with a fake leg and an eyepatch, he shares a sometimes vicious rivalry with Stoick.
• Thuggory the Meathead (in books 1, 9-12) is Mogadon's son, and very like Snotlout. Although he is large, muscular, well-respected and has a huge silver Monstrous Nightmare dragon called Killer, he stands up for Hiccup and works with him in the first book. Later, in Book 10, he becomes the first member of Hiccup's Company of the Dragonmark (excluding Valhallarama who founded it).
• Alvin the Treacherous (in books 2–3, 5, 8–12) is Hiccup's arch-enemy and rival to become King of the Wilderwest. He used to be Chief of the Outcast Tribe in book 2 and was again in books 9—12. He is the main antagonist in books 2–3, 5, and is joined by Excellinor the Witch (his mother) in books 8-12. Although he is a fantastic sword fighter, he is frequently losing parts of his body such as all of his hair, a hand, a foot, a nose, and an eye (as the results of his encounters with Hiccup). He is also Fishlegs' father by Termagant. He is claimed by the Dragon Guardians.
• Norbert the Nutjob (in books 4, 7, 12) is the Chief of the Hysterical Tribe, and Hiccup's second arch-enemy. Norbert's father, Bigjob, once went to America and retrieved a potato, but Hiccup took it to cure Fishlegs of Vorpentitis. As his name suggests, he is insane and uses his giant axe – one gold side and one black side – to decide everything. He appears in the last book disguised as a Wanderer, his survival never explained.
• Humungously Hotshot the Hero (in books 5, 8, 12) has been trapped on the island of Lava-Louts for 15 years. He went out on a quest to find the fire stone for Hiccup's grandfather, Old Wrinkly, so he could marry Hiccup's mother, Valhallarama. He failed, and after Valhallarama marries Stoick the Vast eventually marries Tantrum O'UGerly, the daughter of UG the Uglithug in book 8.
• Big-Boobied Bertha (in books 3–8, 11) is the leader of the Bog-Burglars and the mother of Camicazi. As her name indicates, she has very large breasts and it is mentioned that "these breasts have killed before and will kill again".
• Madguts the Murderous (in books 5–7, 9) is the Chief of the Murderous Tribe. A vicious, frightening, vile smelling man covered in skull tattoos and with "Hate" on the knuckles of both his hands, he is considered one of the scariest men in the Barbarian Archipelago. He also never speaks (though he spoke to Mogadon the Meathead in the fifth book). He has a stealth dragon stolen from him by Bertha and intends to kill her, and later tries to legally kill Stoick and Bertha in the seventh book. Both times he is stopped by Hiccup. Camicazi supposedly burgles from him regularly.
• Excellinor (in books 8–12) is Alvin's witch of a mother. She is pure evil and wants Hiccup's sword. It is said that she never took good care of Alvin the Treacherous and never loved him either. She was locked in a tree trunk for twenty years by UG the Uglithug. Her name was unknown until the ninth book. She is the cause of Alvin's warts and is covered in them. She uses Vampire Spydragons as spies for her. At the end of the final book, she falls into a deep blowhole in the ground and presumably dies there.
• Old Wrinkly (in books 1–5, 7–9, 11, 12), is Valhallarama's father and Hiccup's grandfather. Old Wrinkly is the soothsayer and doctor of the Hairy Hooligans tribe and only trusted thinker of the Tribe. Between the beginning of Book 9 and the end of Book 11, it is unknown what came of him. He appears in the twelfth and final book.

Dragons

• Horrorcow (in books 1–3, 5, 7, 9, 12) is Fishlegs's hunting-dragon of the Basic Brown species. She is named 'Horror' for effect and 'Cow' because she is not dangerous and sleeps a lot. Fishlegs suspects she is a vegetarian. She is three times the size of Toothless and is his best dragon friend. She spends much of the series clinging in fright to Fishlegs' head. When she climbs down from Fishleg's head during Book 9, she is not mentioned again until the end of the final book, explaining that she hated the violence of the war and so hid underground until it was all over.
• Fireworm (in books 1–3, 5, 8-9) is Snotlout's completely immodest and temperamental dragon. She is a red Monstrous Nightmare and immensely dislikes Toothless, often jeering in Dragonese, prodding and attacking him. She joins the Dragon Rebellion in Book 9.
• Stormfly (in books 6–12,) is Camicazi's dragon. Stormfly is a Mood-Dragon, allowing her to change color depending on her mood; when angry, she will turn blue-black, and when lying, she turns purple. Stormfly is unusual in that she speaks in Norse, but she is, as Fishlegs calls her, a pathological liar making it apparent when she is lying. Toothless develops a crush on Stormfly when he meets her for the first time and throughout the series there are many scenes that involve the two dragons subtly flirting (Stormfly lies a lot in these conversations).
• Windwalker (in books 5, 8-12)|David Holt]]) is fiercely loyal to Hiccup, even through terrifying situations. His type of dragon enters a chrysalis stage. It is unknown what happens to them after that.
• Wodensfang (in books 9–12) is an ancient brown dragon, living from when Hiccup Horrendous Haddock I lived. He is a wise dragon, whom Hiccup the Third meets while getting the Crown. He is able to understand and speak (happens in the 11th book) Norse and helps Hiccup in his quest to stop the Rebellion. In the eleventh book it is revealed that he is an extremely ancient Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus.
• Patience, Innocence and Arrogance (in books 10-12) is a triple-headed Deadly Shadow dragon. He can camouflage. He is an Air dragon. He was Termagant's (Fishlegs's mother's) riding dragon, and he swore to look after Fishlegs when he was a baby and set out to sea. The two are reunited in book 10 and he officially becomes Fishlegs's dragon. The three heads have individual personalities.
• Furious (in books 8-12) is a Seadragonus Gigantus Maximus that started and is the leader of the Dragon Rebellion and continuously tries to chase down Hiccup. He was the Dragon-Brother of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock The Second, and becomes Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's blood brother at the end of the final book, shortly before his death from the poisoned Stormblade sword, which Alvin's mother thrust into him. His death is what finalizes the peace between Vikings and dragons.

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v t e Hooligan family tree
Previous generations of Hooligan Family Hiccup Horrendous Haddock The First 1,000 years of Hooligan family generations Grimbeard The Ghastly[n 1] Chinhilda[n 2] Mother Grimler Father Grimler Thugheart[n 3] Sychofanta[n 4] Chucklehead Buffintruda[n 5] Hiccup Horrendous Haddock The Second[n 6] Furious Algarick_Ogglebert[n 7] Excellinor[n 8] Moody The Murderous Squidface The Terrible Brenda Bigarms The Sixth Honking Henrietta Alvin The Treacherous Termagent Brenda Bigarms The Seventh Egginbreeza Six-Pints Gadiola of the Monorrow Burly Sweet Glugga Old Wrinkly Big-Boobied Bertha Stoick The Vast Valhallarama[n 9] Baggy Bum The Beerbelly Fainting_Freda Fishlegs No-Name Camicazi Hiccup Horrendous Haddock The Third[n 10] Snotface Snotlout Adelaide
Notes: ^ Grimbeard the Ghastly, O Hear His Name and Tremble, Ugh. Ugh. Chief of the Hooligan Tribe and King of the Wilderwest ^ Chinhilda, Queen of the Wilderwest and Ghost of the Bay of the Broken Heart ^ Thugheart, the founder and chief of the Treacherous Tribe ^ Sychofanta of the sharp knife and the Slippery Ways ^ Buffintruda, the Flower of Bashom ^ Hiccup Horrendous Haddock II, The Dragon Whisperer ^ Algarick Ogglebert, Jurassic the Red, also known as Oiler ^ Excellinor the Witch ^ Valhallarama of the White Arms and Chunky Thighs ^ Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Hope and Heir to the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, The Useful, The Dragon Whisperer, The Dragonmark, Heir of Grimbeard the Ghastly and True King of the Wilderwest