For a fiercer never I found.”
Sigurth spake:
[a]17]. “The fear-helm surely | no man shields
When he faces a valiant foe;
Oft one finds, | when the foe he meets,
That he is not the bravest of all.”
Fafnir spake:
[18]. “Venom I breathed | when bright I lay
By the hoard my father had; [[377]]
(There was none so mighty | as dared to meet me,