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In Blv a dragon abducts the heroes Åki (in its claws), and Et-
garb, who has tried to prevent the dragon from carrying off his
bro ther (coiled in its tail), as well as their slain adversary, Lupus
(in its mouth). This follows a fierce battie in which the retainers
of both parties have been killed. (Mdbius, Blv, p. 7.) Åki eventu-
ally fails from the dragon’s claws into a forest. (Mobius, Blv, pp.
37-38.) Etgarb, in recounting his ævisaga, tells how the dragon
flew with him for a day and a night until it came to a large cliff
where it had a huge nest. (Mobius, Blv, pp. 41-42.) The dragon’s
young were well developed (vel stdlpadir) and hungrily tore apart
and devoured the corpse of Lupus. Af ter the dragon had fallen
asleep, its tail loosened and Etgarb was able to free himself. He
explored the lair and found weapons and armor. Etgarb slew the
dragon and its young with a sword he had found. He then left the
nest, taking with him the arms as well as a treasure he subsequently
discovered in the lair.
In Q-Os Oddr is abducted by a vulture while sitting beside a
mountain stream. The vulture swoops down and snatches him up
in its claws. Af ter flying with him for a long time, the vulture sets
him down in its nest in the mountains from which there is no es-
cape. The vulture’s young are not yet full-grown (Utt stdlpadir), so
Oddr binds their beaks and eats some of the boiled meat which the
parent vulture occasionally brings back to the nest. One day a giant
rows to the foot of the mountain in a stone boat and reproaches the
bird for having stolen his boiled meat. Oddr kills the young vul-
tures, returns what is left of the meat to the giant, and advises
the giant on how best to do away with the vulture. He and the
giant set fire to the lair, and the vulture is burned to death when
it returns. (Boer, Q-Os, pp. 119-120.)
In Pidr the hero attacks a dragon which has a lion in its mouth
and is carried away coiled in its tail to the dragon’s lair. The drag-
on and its young quickly devour the lion, whereupon the older
dragon falis asleep. Its tail relaxes, and Hibrikr crawls free. Upon
searching the nest, Bibrikr discovers weapons and armor and kills
the dragon and its young with the sword he has found5.
5 Pidriks saga af Bern, ed. by Henrik Bertelsen, Samfund til udgivelse af gam-
mel nordisk litteratur, Vol. XXXIV (2 vols.; Copenhagen: 1905-11), Vol. II, pp.
361-63.