Sigurd
33 ‘Life each must leave
on his latest day,
yet gold gladly
will grasp living!’
Fáfnir
‘Fools! saith Fáfnir –
with fate of woe
this gold is glamoured.
Grasp not! Flee thou!’
Sigurd
34 ‘A fool, saith Sigurd,
could not fend himself
with helm of horror –
hell now seize him!’…
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!…
Sigurd
15 ‘With kin unkindly
wert thou cursed Regin!
His fire and venom
affright me not!
Yet why thou eggest me,
I ask thee still –
for father’s vengeance,
or for Fáfnir’s gold?’
Regin
16 ‘A sire avenged
were sweet to Regin;
the gold thy guerdon,
the glory thine.…
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!…
