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Sign in to savethumb|A depiction of Sigurð slaying Fáfnir on the right portal plank from Hylestad Stave Church, the so-called "Hylestad I", from the second half of the 12th century In Germanic heroic legend and folklore, Fáfnir was a dwarf or other type of humanoid who had shifted into the hamr of a Germanic dragon (a worm, "serpent", in period nomenclature) in order to protect a treasure, eventually being slain by a member of the Völsung family, typically Sigurð.
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- Instance of
- dwarf
- Part of
- Germanic mythology
- Gender
- male
- Father
- Hreiðmarr
- Sibling
- Ótr
- Image
- Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods p 022.jpg
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- Fafnir
- killed by
- Sigurd
- different from
- 42 Draconis
- described by source
- Völsunga saga
- present in work
- Poetic Edda
- manner of death
- killing
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