Fáfnir
30 ‘O man of mankind!
What man begot thee?
Who forged the flame
for Fáfnir’s heart?’
Sigurd
‘As the wolf I walk
wild and lonely,
no father owning,
a flame bearing.’
Fáfnir
31 ‘A wolf was thy sire –
full well I know it!
Who egged thee eager
to mine undoing?’
Sigurd
‘My sire was Sigmund,
seed of Völsung;
my heart egged me,
my hand answered.’
Fáfnir
32 ‘Nay! Regin wrought this,
rogue and master!
O son of Sigmund!
sooth I tell thee:
my guarded gold
gleams with evil,
bale it bringeth
to both my foes.’
{J. R. R. Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, Sigfrid-Battleborne by SpaceSmilodon on Deviantart}
-Ancalagon
