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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 125 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FAFNIR , in Scandinavian See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the son of the See also:

GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant Hreidmar. He was the See also:

GUARDIAN

guardian of the hoard of the Nibelungs and was killed by See also:

SIGURD (Sigur6r)

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