[897] wyrm hāt ('being hot,' i.e. 'by its own heat') gemealt. (Cp. 3040 f.; 1605 ff., 1666 ff.; Intr. xxii f.) This motive -- cp. Seyfridslied 10, 147 -- has been enlarged upon (and modified) in the accounts of the dragon fight of Sigurðr-Sigfrit. Cf. L. Polak, Untersuchungen über die Sigfridsagen (Berlin Diss., 1910), pp. 47 f.--Note the w-alliteration in three successive lines. (Intr. lxxi n. 3.)
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