The riddling talk between Smaug and the hobbit has its parallel in the dialogue between Fafnir and Sigurd, although that takes place after the death blow has been struck. |
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He decided it was time to enter the workforce and took a job in the sales division of Fafnir Bearing Company. |
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Hayes has been with Atlas-Copco, SKF, and Fafnir before moving into the bearing-grinding business. |
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A casualty, I suspect, of Borges's implacable widow, Maria Kodama, who guards his literary legacy more zealously than Fafnir his hoard. |
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But the world that contained even the imagination of Fafnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril. |
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