Fafnir's Claims

Sigurd said:
14 ‘Tell me, Fafnir, you are said to be wise
and to know a great deal:
what that island is called where Surt and the Æsir
will mingle sword-liquid together.’*

Fafnir said:
15 ‘Not-yet-made it’s called, and there all the gods
shall sport with their spears;
Bilrost will break as they journey away,
and their horses flounder in the great river.

16 ‘The helm of terror I wore among the sons of men,
while I lay upon the neck-rings;
more powerful than all I thought myself to be,
I didn’t encounter many equals.’

Sigurd said:
17 ‘The helm of terror protects no one, where furious men have to fight;
a man finds out when he comes among a multitude;
that no one is bravest of all.’


- Poetic Edda, Fafnismal


("sword-liquid: i.e. blood." - from the Explanatory Notes section included with the translation)