Fáfnir
Norse · numen · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
The most consequential absence in the Norse part of this corpus. Sigurd is in the registry and is called the dragon-slayer; the dragon was not there to be slain. Fáfnir is also the clearest statement the Norse material makes about money: a man who takes gold he will not share turns into an animal that can do nothing with it but lie on it, and the word for his kind of dragon is the ordinary word for a snake.
Parentage
- parent: Hreiðmarr
Domains
- dragons
- greed
Relations
- sibling: ReginThe brother he drove off, who sent the boy who killed him.Reference treatment of Regin and Fáfnir as brothers. (secondary)
- sibling: ÓtrReference treatment of the three sons of Hreiðmarr. (secondary)
- killer of: HreiðmarrReference treatment of Fafnir's murder of his father. (secondary)
- killed by: SigurdWritten one way because the existing Sigurd record cannot be given a reciprocal from here. The registry held the dragon-slayer and not the dragon.Reference treatment of Fáfnir's death at the hands of Sigurd. (secondary)
Sources
- Fáfnir is the son of Hreiðmarr who murdered his father for the otter's ransom, became a dragon to guard it, and was killed by Sigurd.: Reference treatments of Fáfnir, the otter's ransom and the Völsunga saga. (secondary)