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Sigurd and Fafnir

The Völsung episode of Sigurd slaying the dragon Fafnir and tasting the heart. Not Sigurd as a being alone, and not dragon-slayer as a free motif alone.

Norse tradition

Sigurd and Fafnir appears in Norse tradition.
Fáfnismál in the Poetic Edda stages Sigurðr’s slaying of Fáfnir and the heart-taste counsel. A named dragon-slaying episode in that poem, not Sigurd as being alone and not dragon-slayer as a free motif alone.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Sigurd and Fafnir appears in Poetic Edda.
The Sigurðr–Fáfnir slaying and heart-taste counsel is carried in Fáfnismál inside the Poetic Edda. A named episode’s presence in that corpus, not Völsunga saga as a different book.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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sources

Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.