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Fafnir

noun
1.
(Norse mythology) the Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd.





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"Fafnir" Quotes from Famous Books



... I shall not see Men-folk belike, but faerie, And all the arms within the seas Should help me naught to deal with these; Rather of such love were I fain As fell to Sigurd Fafnir's-bane When of the dragon's ...
— The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature • Conrad Hjalmar Nordby
... hearer called for a tale at this point, the scop would recite that part of Beowulf which tells of the monster Grendel. Again, he named Sigard the Volsung (the Siegfrid of the Niebelungenlied and of Wagner's opera), and this would recall the slaying of the dragon Fafnir, or some other story of the old Norse saga. So every name or place which Widsith mentioned was an invitation. When he came to a hall and "unlocked his word-hoard," he offered his hearers a variety of poems and legends from which they made their own selection. Looked at in this way, the ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... Morris took the form of the story which is most archaic, and bears most birthmarks of its savage origin—the version of the "Volsunga," not the German shape of the "Nibelungenlied." He showed extraordinary skill, especially in making human and intelligible the story of Regin, Otter, Fafnir, and the ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Fafnir" :   firedrake, dragon, Norse mythology


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