![]() ![]() Later, Fáfnir leaves his hoard, blowing out atter or venom, and moves over Sigurð, who stabs him through the belly and into the heart. Sigurð digs a trench across the path and hides in it. In the second poem, Fáfnismál, the prose prologue describes Sigurð and Regin going to Gnitaheath, where they find the track Fáfnir made as he crawled to the water to drink. Sigurð sucking the Fáfnir's heart-blood off his thumb. Along with Andvari's ring, Andvaranaut, the treasure here is described as including the Helm of fear ( Old Norse: ægishjálmr). Fáfnir then takes all the hoard, refusing to share it with his brother, and takes to Gnitaheath, where he took the shape of a worm. As he dies, Hreiðmarr calls out to his daughters Lyngheiðr and Lofnheiðr, but they take no action. Fáfnir and Regin asked their father for some of the weregild but he refused, leading Fáfnir to kill him. In the poem, Andvari curses the gold which the gods give to Hreiðmarr. ![]() Loki caught Andvari using Rán's net and exports the gold from him. Seeing the otter skin, the family seized the gods and demanded that the gods fill and cover the skin in red gold as weregild. Loki killed Ótr with a stone and the gods skinned him before seeking lodgings at the house of Hreiðmarr, the father of Fáfnir and his siblings. In that water also lived Fáfnir and Regin's brother, Ótr who was eating a salmon on the bank, in the shape of an otter. In the prose of the first, Reginsmál, the eponymous figure Regin tells Sigurð that once Odin, Loki, and Hœnir went to the foss of the dwarf Andvari who lived there in the form of a pike. The Poetic Edda contains two poems that mention Fáfnir. Fearing this, Sigurð kills Regin and takes the treasure, loading it up on his horse Grani.
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