Wane, to fade away, grow dim.
Warding-walls, guarding-walls. "Warding walls of death," man's armour that keeps death from him.
Wards, keepers, e.g. door-wards; cf. warden. Fafnir is called "the gold-warden."
War-wand, a sword.
Wary, careful, ever on the watch.
Waste, to destroy, to sweep away, e.g. Sigurd is said to "waste every wrong."
Waxen, grown, become.
Weal, happiness, good-fortune.
Wedge-array, an arrangement of fighting men in which they stood close together in the form of a triangle.
Weed, dress.