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

Usage examples of fafnir.

Now that Fafnir had arrived, Hosea could feel the pull of expectation all around him.

And since, on this world-embracing scale, it was clear that Siegfried must come into conflict with many baser and stupider forces than those lofty ones of supernatural religion and political constitutionalism typified by Wotan and his wife Fricka, these minor antagonists had to be dramatized also in the persons of Alberic, Mime, Fafnir, Loki, and the rest.

Men have drownedfisherfolk who could swim before ever they took a step: Grimhild, Brand, Drott, Fafnir.

The Valhalla syndrome afflicted many of his kind throughout the world, for it was Minck's firm conviction that he possessed a power fully as great as the spear Wotan had fashioned out of the World Ash Tree, the spear by which he controlled all creatures, even the giant Fafnir, the spear by which he need only touch someone to end their life.