Now home goes Sigurd with fair victory won, and plenteous wealth
and great honour, which he had gotten to him in this journey, and
feasts were made for him against he came back to the realm.
But when Sigurd had been at home but a little, came Regin to talk
with him, and said --
"Belike thou wilt now have good will to bow down Fafnir's crest
according to thy word plighted, since thou hast thus revenged thy
father and the others of thy kin."
Sigurd answered, "That will we hold to, even as we have promised,
nor did it ever fall from our memory."
ENDNOTES:
(1) This and verses following were inserted from the "Reginsmal"
by the translators.
(2) "Disir", sing. "Dis". These are the guardian beings who
follow a man from his birth to his death. The word
originally means sister, and is used throughout the Eddaic
poems as a dignified synonym for woman, lady.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Of the Slaying of the Worm Fafnir.
Now Sigurd and Regin ride up the heath along that same way
wherein Fafnir was wont to creep when he fared to the water; and
folk say that thirty fathoms was the height of that cliff along
which he lay when he drank of the water below.
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