Fafnir his foster-son Sigurd to kill the dragon. Regin instructed Sigurd to dig a pit in which he could lie in wait under the trail Fáfnir used to get to a stream and there plunge his sword, Gram, into Fafnir's heart as he crawls over the pit to the water. Regin then ran away in fear, leaving Sigurd to the task. As Sigurd dug, Odin appeared in the form of an old man with a long beard, advising the warrior to dig more trenches for the blood of Fafnir to run into, presumably so that Sigurd does not drown in the
Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology term for a sacred place was . The Proto-Germanic masculine noun , which developed into Old Frankish ('holy grove'), similarly either developed from, or is otherwise connected to, Gaulish , Latin and Old Irish 'holiness'. Another Proto-Germanic masculine noun, or , has given rise to words with a variety of meanings in various Germanic languages, including Anglo-Saxon , 'meadow', Middle Low German , 'bush', and Old High German , , 'grove, copse, bush'; it is cognate with Latin , 'sacred grove'. Scandinavian placenames occur with the name of a deity compounded with , 'grove', or , 'wood'. Sacred trees and