Hello,

>why are you interested in Old Norse?

Well, pure intellectual hedonism really, and out of being interested in
languages generally.

A question for anyone with thoughts on the matter: Apart from the part of
the Volsung Saga where Sigurd tastes the blood of Fafnir's heart and can
suddenly understand the language of the birds, does a connection between
eating dragon-hearts and understanding birds occur anywhere else in Norse
(or other) literatures? I was struck by a parallel to this in the Life of
Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus, where the exact same thing is
attributed to the Arabs (Life of Apollonius, book 1, chapter 20).

Kve�ja,
Graeme

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