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.