The Völsunga Saga on Fafnir

The Story Of The Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) > CHAPTER XIV. Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called

• attestation: Fafnir slew his own father Hreidmar to seize all the cursed treasure

  "Fafnir slew his father and murdered him, nor got I aught of the treasure"

• attestation: Fafnir transformed into a dragon and lay brooding upon the treasure, refusing to share with anyone

  "so evil he grew, that he fell to lying abroad, and begrudged any share in the wealth to any man, and so became the worst of all worms, and ever now lies brooding upon that treasure"

The Story Of The Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) > CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Slaying of the Worm Fafnir.

• attestation: Fafnir's cliff was thirty fathoms high at the place where he drank water

  "folk say that thirty fathoms was the height of that cliff along which he lay when he drank of the water below."

• attestation: Fafnir identified Sigurd as a man without kin or parents, born a bondsman, challenging his noble claims

  "Wilt thou then cast it in my teeth that I am far away from my kin? Albeit I was a bondsman, yet was I never shackled. God wot thou hast found me free enow."

• attestation: Fafnir warned Sigurd that the gold would be his death, as it brings doom to all who possess it

  "The gold that I had shall be thy bane too."