Fáfnir
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In Germanic heroic legend and folklore, Fáfnir was a dwarf or other type of humanoid who had shifted into the hamr of a Germanic dragon in order to protect a treasure, eventually being slain by a memb
A depiction of Sigurð slaying Fáfnir on the right portal plank from Hylestad Stave Church, the so-called "Hylestad I", from the second half of the 12th century
U 1163, the Drävle runestone, depicting Sigurð stabbing Fáfnir, who encircles the runestone.
Sigurð sucking the Fáfnir's heart-blood off his thumb.
Norman relief of St. George and the Dragon, Aversa Cathedral, Italy (11th century).
Hamr (folklore)
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In Nordic mythology and folklore, Old Norse: hamr, in later periods, mainly rural folk belief, is a shroud, shape, form, figure, in which the hug, the 'mind, spirit', could manifest itself outside the
Fáfnir
…In Germanic heroic legend and folklore, Fáfnir was a dwarf or other type of humanoid who had shifted into the hamr of a Germanic dragon (a worm, "serpent", in period nomenclature) in order to protect a treasure, eventually being slain by a member of the Völsung…
Kim Diaz Holm's contemporary art depicting a draugr (revenant) haunting in enormous hamr
Dolon is wearing a wolfskin. Attic red-figure vase, c. 460 BC.
Modern art depicting a Valkyrie emerging from her raven hamr to collect the fallen
Gotland Runic Inscription 181 depicting a warrior next to a Valkyrie in swan hamr in Valhalla