Dragons & Serpents · Norse and Germanic world
Fafnir
The treasure-hoarding dragon slain by Sigurd, where greed turns kinship into a scaled curse.
Legend File
Fafnir is a dragon made from possession. In the Volsung and wider Germanic heroic world, cursed treasure transforms him into a hoarder whose body becomes the shape of greed itself. Sigurd's victory is heroic, but it does not make the gold safe; the dragon dies, while the curse keeps moving through human hands.
Source Framing
Norse and broader Germanic heroic legend around Fafnir as a dragon or transformed hoarder slain by Sigurd/Siegfried, tied to the Volsung-Nibelung gold hoard and curse cycle.
