--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Fernando Guerrero" <cualfer@...> wrote:

> Fritzner defines it as "hvad barnet faar som gave i anledning af den forste tands."

"What the child gets as a gift on the occasion of its first tooth"

> As for snakes, it is well known that they do not mix well with gold, as they grow and grow and become nasty venom spitting dragons. There are also several examples of this in J Simpsons "folktales of Iceland" (A translation of Jon Arnasson's collection) that has been just reedited.

Yngvars saga Víðförla has a whole brood of serpents who sleep on a hill of gold, but I don't think it says whether they spontaneously generated it themselves.  The chief snake, Jakúlus, can fly and spits venom and makes a special point of targeting priests, so he must be evil!

LLama Nom.