> og kváðu engu gegna
"and said it meant nothing", "and said
it was of no importance". See
Alan's translation. This is Zoega's third
definition for the verb
`gegna' "to signify, mean, matter".
> I
had a story - long ago of Sigurð-Dragonslayer - that must be the
same one
from whom Thorgeir descended
Sigurd who killed the dragon Fáfnir is the
central hero of Völsunga
saga and comes into several poems of the Elder
Edda. For a summary of
his story, see Skáldskaparmál, Chapters 47-49 as
numbered here [
http://www.heimskri ngla.no/original /snorre/skaldska parmal.php
]. He
also features in Þiðreks saga.
Remember Chapter 1 where it
said: "Maður er nefndur Höskuldur. Hann
var Dala-Kollsson. Móðir hans hét
Þorgerður og var dóttir Þorsteins
hins rauða, Ólafssonar hins hvíta,
Ingjaldssonar, Helgasonar. Móðir
Ingjalds var Þóra, dóttir Sigurðar orms í
auga, Ragnarssonar loðbrókar."
Well, Ragnarr loðbrók "Ragnar
Furry-Trousers" married Áslaug who was
the daughter of Sigurðr Fáfnisbana
and Brynhildr Buðladóttir, as told
in Ragnars saga loðbrókar [ http://www.snerpa. is/net/forn/ ragnar.htm
],
and more briefly in Ragnarssona þáttr [
http://www.snerpa. is/net/forn/ rag-son.htm
].
LN