RRG Fafnir 2 RRG Fafnir 2 The RRG Fafnir 2 São Paulo, named after the legendary dragon and the Brazilian city which partially financed it, was a single seat German high performance glider designed by Alexander Lippisch. It set a new world distance record in 1934 and won the 1937 International Gliding Championships. Lippisch began the design of the Fafnir 2 in 1934. Apart from being a wood and fabric aircraft with a strongly tapered cantilever gull wing, it had little in common with the Fafnir of 1930, though lessons had been learned from that design. During 1934 the RRG was disbanded and
Idis (Germanic) was also extremely varied – fertility goddess, personal guardians, but also warrior-goddesses – the belief in the "dísir", like the belief in the valkyries, norns, and matrons, may be considered to be different manifestations of a belief in a number of female (half-?) goddesses." Jacob Grimm proposes a potential connection to the name of the Norse goddess Iðunn and the idisi. Grimm states that "with the original form "idis" the goddess Idunn may possibly be connected." Idis (Germanic) In Germanic mythology, an idis (Old Saxon, plural idisi) is a divine female being. "Idis" is cognate to Old High German itis