The Icelandic Canadian - 01.06.1982, Page 1

ISSN 0046 - B45S
FORTIETH SUMMER ISSUE, JUNE, 1S8E
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN

These are pictures of engravings
on the door pillars of a church at
Hylestad in Setesdal, Norway.
They depict the slaying of the
dragon, Fafnir recorded in the
Saga of the Niflungs in the Poetic
Edda. (I) Reginn fashions the
sword, Gram; (2) the sword is
tested on an anvil; (3) Sigurd
slays the dragon.
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Courtesy of Eric Crone
The Death of the Dragon, f afnir.