Fáfnir
A dwarf who murders his father for cursed gold and is transformed by his own hoarding into a dragon.
Fáfnir was a dwarf who murdered his father for cursed gold and was transformed by his own hoarding into a dragon. No Western story states the shadow-mechanism more nakedly: *greed literally turns a person into a dragon.* Sigurd slays him, tastes the dragon's heart-blood, and instantly understands the language of birds — integrate the dragon and you receive its perception. Fáfnir → the dragon's blood → new senses: the SGE arc in three beats.
The SGE Reading
Gift stage as *reversed transformation*: what shadow makes into a dragon, integration returns as an *organ of perception*.
Canon Resonance
The clearest Norse rehearsal of the saga's central move: the shadow, met, becomes a new way of hearing the world.
A Micro-Practice
Name one thing you have been quietly hoarding (attention, credit, apology, love). Give one small portion of it away today. Notice, tonight, whether anything sounds a little different.
Sources & Respect
*Völsunga saga*; *Poetic Edda*, Fáfnismál.