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Regin asks Sigurd to retrieve Regin's part of Fafnir's treasure, but Sigurd decides to avenge his father first. With an army he attacks and kills Lyngvi, receiving the help of Odin. [95] Then Sigurd heads to Gnita-Heath to kill the dragon, hiding in a pit that Fafnir will travel over. Sigurd stabs Fafnir through the heart from underneath ...
In 2015, the star designated 42 Draconis was named Fafnir by the International Astronomical Union. [48] Fáfnir was depicted in Marvel Comics' Thor series, as "Fafnir". [49] Fáfnir appears as an enemy in the 2018 video game God of War. [50] Fáfnir appears as a recurring character in the manga series and anime Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. [51]
Sigurd hides in a pit near Fafnir's lair and springs out of it stabbing Fáfnir in the heart. Fáfnir, mortally wounded, converses with Sigurd in riddle-like conversation. Initially, Sigurd withholds his name because it was a belief that a mortally wounded man had special powers if he cursed his slayer by name.
A depiction of Sigurd with Gram on the Ramsund carving, dated to around the year 1030. In Norse mythology, Gram (Old Norse Gramr, meaning "Wrath"), [1] also known as Balmung or Nothung, is the sword that Sigurd used to kill the dragon Fafnir. [2] It is primarily used by the Völsungs in the Volsunga Saga.
Drawing of the Ramsund carving from c. 1030, illustrating the Völsunga saga on a rock in Sweden.At (1), Sigurd sits in front of the fire preparing the dragon's heart. The Völsunga saga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the ...
After Sigurd kills the dragon Fafnir, he rides up to a house on a mountain, inside of which he finds a woman sleeping wearing armor. He cuts the armor from her, and she wakes up, and says that she was a valkyrie named Hild, but called Brunhild. Sigurd then rides away. [17]
Sigurð sucking the dragon blood off his thumb. The third scene shows Sigurð slaying the dragon with a sword. [3] After forging the sword, Sigurð and Regin travel to Gnita-Heath in order to find Fáfnir the dragon and take his treasure. There they dig a pit in the path used by Fáfnir, [5] and then he crawled into it.
Fáfnismál contains a discussion between the hero Sigurd and the dragon Fafnir who is dying from a mortal wound from Sigurd. The hero asks Fafnir of many things, among them the nature of the norns. Fafnir explains that they are many and from several races: