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Norse dragon slain by Sigurd
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fafnir
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In Norse mythology , Fáfnir ( Old Norse and Icelandic ) or Frænir is a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin , Lyngheiðr, Lofnheiðr and Ótr . After being affected by the curse of Andvari 's ring and gold, Fafnir became a dragon and was slain ...
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n. (context Norse mythology English) a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar, gifted with strength and fearlessness, but killed his father and transformed into a dragon out of ill-nature and greed. He would be slain by Regin and Sigurd whilst trying to protect ...
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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.