Sigurd Fafnir

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Sigurd (the German Siegfried) slays the dragon Fafnir, tastes its blood and understands the birds, and wins the cursed hoard of gold — the tale of the Volsunga Saga and the Nibelungenlied. The northern dragon-slayer, whose curse-gold dooms all who hold it. — medieval literature