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1. Sigurd begins to speak. "This story begins before my birth; on the day of the great wedding feast for my father's twin sister, Signy, and Siggeir, the lord of the Goths. At the feast, a poor stranger appeared grasping a great sword which he plunged into the tree Branstock. He declared that the man who could retrieve it could call it his own. It was my father who achieved this feat after all had failed. But who was that stranger in disguise?"
2. "After the Goths attacked and seized the sword of Branstock, all but my father, Sigmund, were slain in battle." Sigurd bows his head. "Siggeir became King, but his wife, Signy, was secretly on my father's side. She did many things to aid him in his revenge - which did she not do for him?"
3. Sigurd continues. "My father defeated Siggeir and was crowned King. He married but his first wife soon died. He then married my mother, Hiordis - but this marriage angered her other suitor, who was the young king of a nearby realm. In his fury, he declared war. Can you name him?"
4. "The sword-bearing beggar man appeared to me and my father several times," says Sigurd. "He once brought me to a place where many wild horses grazed, to show me the horse that should be mine - a beautiful, powerful grey stallion. Do you know what name I gave to my horse?"
5. "I grew up an apprentice to the famous dwarf blacksmith, Regin," Sigurd recounts. "He taught me to read the runes and speak in many languages, versed me in magic and taught me music. He and his two brothers were shapeshifters and sons of Reidmar. What kind of being was Reidmar?"
6. "It was Regin, my tutor, who sent me on my journey to slay the dragon Fafnir and regain the great treasure hoard which he guarded." Sigurd gestures to demonstrate the vastness of the treasure. "He told me the story of the curse which had worked against the treasure's previous owner so that Fafnir had killed him and taken it for himself. Who was Fafnir?"
7. "I was approached again by the mysterious beggar man who gave me advice on how to defeat the dragon. There was only one way." Sigurd looks around at the faces of his audience. "Do you know how I did it?"
8. Sigurd goes on. "When the monster was slain, Regin came to me and asked that I roast its heart so that he may eat of it and grow wise. But all the time, he was plotting to kill me. How did I learn of this and manage to save myself?"
9. "My one true love was in a deep enchanted sleep on the mountain Hindfell when I discovered her," Sigurd says, his voice becoming wistful and his eyes filling with beautiful memories. "She had been sent there by Odin, to slumber until a mortal man came to wake her. She would have to marry whoever that man might be. What had she done to incur Odin's wrath?"
10. Sigurd's tale nears its end. He says, "I married twice, to my second wife while my first still lived. Do you know the name of my second and final wife?"
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