Fafner's Gold lyrics

Regin forges more than swords and blades

In his smithy schemes and plans are made

There is vengeance to be claimed

To this cause his fate is chained

But he needed someone strong and brave

And for the price of horse and blade

He found a hero who would do the deed

To make his brother, Fafner1, bleed

In search of

Fafner's gold

A dragon's tale

He'll run his sword

Through his scales

Fafner's gold

A dragon's tale

Treachery unfolds

Deceit unveiled

There is a dragon's treasure to be claimed

To its curse Regin's fate is chained

He sent his hero on this baleful ride

With the sword Gram2 at his side

Heading out on the Gnita plains

A wasteland where desolation reigns

In search of

Fafner's gold

A dragon's tale

He'll run his sword

Through his scales

Fafner's gold

A dragon's tale

Treachery unfolds

Deceit unveiled

Gram2 stung him well

The dragon fell

Regin said

"Fry its heart"

Tasting dragon's blood3

He now understood

All of Regin's collusive plans

Then he made Gram2 bite him well

And Regin fell as well

To Andvare's4 malicious curse

In Search of

Fafner's Gold

A dragon's tale

Treachery unfolds

Deceit unveiled

In search of

Fafner's gold

A dragon's tale

He ran his sword

Through his scales

Fafner's gold

A dragon's tale

Treachery unfolds

Deceit unveiled

1. Fafner had turned into a dragon because he stole Andvare's cursed golds2. a. b. c. Sword of the Sigurd, the hero in the narrative3. Tasting the blood of Fafner's gives knowledge and talent to talk with Odin's birds4. He is the real owner of the golds. He got killed by Loki but he cursed the golds before getting killed. Loki takes the golds to Hreidmar . Later on, the son of Hreidmar, Fafner got the golds by killing his father.