Marvel Comics created their own version of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, when they introduced the Vanir Fafnir and his companion Blackrat to the Conan comics.

Before Fafnir dies, they have an important conversation that reveals the truth to Sigurd about the treasure.

: These are names for serpents: dragon, Fafnir, Iormungand, adder, Nidhogg, snake, viper, Goin, Moin, Grafvitnir, Grabak, Ofnir, Svafnir, masked one.

His brothers are Fafnir and Ótr.

In Fáfnismál, during a discussion between Sigurd and Fafnir concerning the minor Norns ( apart from the three great Norns ), those who govern the lives and destinies of dwarves are also known as " Dvalin's daughters ".

The Hattian civilization may also have given rise to the Hittite legend of Teshub and Illuyankas, although similar legends are found in many Indo-European cultures ( Indra and Vrtra, Zeus and Typhon, Thor and Jörmungandr, Sigurd and Fafnir, and even the medieval Saint George and the Dragon ).

Variant anglicizations are: Brân the Blessed: Bran the Blessed, Bendigeidvrân, Bendigeidvran ; Dankrat: Dancrat ; Dankwart: Dancwart ; Efnisien: Evnisien ; Fáfnir: Fafnir ; Gjúki: Gjuki, Giuki ; Grímhild: Grimhild ; Gübich: Gubich ; Gudrún: Gudrun, Guthrun, Guthrún, Gudhrun ; Gudný: Gudny, Guthny, Gudhny Hamdir: Hamthir, Hamdhir ; Hnæf: Hnaef ; Högni: Hogni ; Jónakr: Jonakr, Ionakr ; Jörmenrek: Jormenrek ; Iormenrek ; Iormenrekk ; Snævar: Snaevar ; Sólar: Solar ; Sörli: Sorli.

The hero asks Fafnir of many things, among them the nature of the norns.

Fáfnismál contains a discussion between the hero Sigurd and the dragon Fafnir who is dying from a mortal wound from Sigurd.

With this advice and the other words from the birds, Sigurd drew his sword and cut off Regin's head and took all the gold from the treasure that Fafnir had previously guarded.

Wu, Shaeffer and Sharrol Janss and their children, Tanya and Louis Wu, had secretly emigrated from Earth to the planet Fafnir to escape the control of Earth's United Nations government and the ARM.

A new model, using twin-cylinder air-cooled engines bought from the German Fafnir company, was shown in 1903.

Several years later, amidst unusual and perilous circumstances, Louis, his sister, mother, and adoptive father ( Beowulf ) along with Carlos and Carlos ' girlfriend, Feather Filip, secretly and illegally emigrated from Earth to Fafnir.

# Sigurd is sitting naked in front of the fire preparing the dragon heart, from Fafnir, for his foster-father Regin, who is Fafnir's brother.

* Fafnir, a dragon from Norse mythology, originally a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin and Otr

Beowulf tears off Grendel's arm, and as thanks for freeing his kingdom from the monster that plagued them for years, Hrothgar gives Beowulf his golden drinking horn, which represents the time Hrothgar slew the mighty dragon Fafnir.

* Fafnir appears several times in the Marvel Comics series Thor, first appearing in # 134

William of Tyre explains that " after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy.

This protection explains why fossils preserved further from the Cathedral Formation are impossible to work with — tectonic squeezing of the beds has produced a vertical cleavage that fractures the rocks, so they split perpendicular to the fossils.

But the king they are given is Yahweh's gift, and Samuel explains that kingship can be a blessing rather than a curse if they remain faithful to their God.

These tropical jungles are similar to coral reefs in that they are highly efficient at conserving and circulating necessary nutrients, which explains their lushness in a nutrient desert.

In addition, the preferences of the agent ( the particular rewards that they value ) also cause the beliefs formed to change-this explains the Biased Assimilation ( also known as Confirmation Bias ) shown above.

Xavier explains to Cyclops about the recent events with Mr. Sinister and tries to explain to Cyclops how Sinister has been manipulating Scott's and Jean's lives since when they were children.

Biological evolution explains why faunal succession exists: as different organisms evolve, change and go extinct, they leave behind fossils.

The books, which are referenced many times in the Harry Potter books, even have footnotes about other books, which do not exist, for future reading, and a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, which explains why they are releasing the book to a muggle audience.

In the " two-source hypothesis ," Q explains where the authors of Matthew and Luke got the material that they have in common with each other but that is not found in Mark, such as the Lord's prayer.

The manager explains to Marlow that they couldn't wait, and needed to take the steamboat up-river because of " rumours that a very important station was in jeopardy, and its chief, Mr. Kurtz, was ill ." Marlow describes that the manager " inspired uneasiness "-" just uneasiness — nothing more "-Along with the manager, Marlow describes the other Company men at this station as lazy back-biting " pilgrims "-fraught with envy and jealousy.

She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book Pranic Nourishment — Living on Light, " which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to.

Noting that " the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long ", Tyrell explains that the reason Nexus-6 replicants do not live longer is not due to some sort of kill switch, but because they physically cannot — the result of the superhuman capabilities engineered into them.

This explains why superparamagnetic nanoparticles have a much larger susceptibility than standard paramagnets: they behave exactly as a paramagnet with a huge magnetic moment.

That, and the fact that they had nothing to lose other than the most tolerant and broadminded gay place in town, explains why.

It defines macroscopic variables ( such as temperature, internal energy, entropy, and pressure ) that describe average properties of material bodies and radiation, and explains how they are related and by what laws they change with time.

The Count explains, " it is right that greater pains would be taken to make what is written more polished and correct … they should be chosen from the most beautiful of those employed in speech " ( Courtier 71 ).

Nephi chastises them for not asking the Lord for the interpretation, and explains the point they were disputing.

He also explains the resurrection ; that the body lies in the grave and the spirit either in torment or in a state of paradise, and that without Christ there could be no resurrection, and that because of Christ all men will be resurrected with their spirit being freed from either paradise or torment and their body raised from the grave, and then they are judged according to their works in life.

Hansen-Glucklich explains, "... when victims ’ possessions are collected according to type and displayed en masse they stand metonymically for the victims themselves ...

Another theory explains Bolesław I's absence from the document through an old Slavic custom whereby children received their inheritance as soon as they reached the age of majority.

In February 1993 they formed Theodore Supergrass, " for about two months " Quinn explains, " then we realized that Theodore was a bit rubbish so we took that off.

Bobby Drake explains his heretofore unknown sister as merely a half-sister ; they share the same mother.

He explains that there are sometimes honorable courtiers, but that too often a man who succeeds at court does not hesitate to sacrifice his Sovereign and nation to his own avarice and ambition.

Declinations and substitutions are better received when he explains why his obligations to his institution preclude his acceptance.

`` If teeth are moved too rapidly, serious injury can be done to their roots as well as to the surrounding bone holding them in place '', explains Dr. Brodie.

Rabbi Trugman explains that it is through oral tradition that the meanings of the Torah, its commandments and stories, are known and understood.

Only the product is required to calculate planetary positions for an ephemeris, which explains why ephemerides are calculated in astronomical units and not in SI units.

He explains that there are at least three kinds of associations between ideas: resemblance, contiguity in space-time, and cause-and-effect.

This explains that road signs in Flanders are written in Dutch, even when referring to a Walloon region, and conversely, which can be confusing for foreigners who do not know the different translations of Flemish or Walloon cities in the other language.

By contrast, substance theory explains the compresence of properties by asserting that the properties are found together because it is the substance that has those properties.

This explains why current studies are focused on illnesses commonly found in developed countries, where more people can afford to pay for treatment.

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

Church services are regulated by the Manual, the set of by-laws written by Eddy, that establishes the church organization and explains the duties and responsibilities of members, officers, practitioners, teachers and nurses ; and establishes rules for discipline and other aspects of church business.

Canadian culture is a term that explains the artistic, musical, literary, culinary, political and social elements that are representative of Canada and Canadians, not only to its own population, but people all over the world.

We will use the notation to denote the multiplicative inverse of, it is defined exactly when and are coprime ; the following construction explains why the coprimality condition is needed.

In this context, dukkha denotes the experience that all formations ( sankhara ) are impermanent ( anicca )-thus it explains the qualities which make the mind as fluctuating and impermanent entities.

In an example Husserl explains this in the following way: if you are standing in front of a house, you have a proper, direct presentation of that house, but if you are looking for it and ask for directions, then these directions ( e. g. the house on the corner of this and that street ) are an indirect, improper presentation.

" " Ideas are not concepts ," he explains, but rather " a form of eternally positive differential multiplicity, distinguished from the identity of concepts.

This, in part, explains the constant references to values and principles that are " necessary in a democratic society " throughout the Convention, despite the fact that such principles are not in any way defined within the convention itself.