and he was clad in the golden byrny, and all his weapons were
gold wrought.

Now for this cause was the drake drawn on all his weapons, that
when he was seen of men, all folk might know who went there; yea,
all those who had heard of his slaying of that great dragon, that
the Voerings call Fafnir, and for that cause are his weapons
gold-wrought, and brown of hue, and that he was by far above
other men in courtesy and goodly manners, and well-nigh in all
things else; and whenas folk tell of all the mightiest champions,
and the noblest chiefs, then ever is he named the foremost, and
his name goes wide about on all tongues north of the sea of the
Greek-lands, and even so shall it be while the world endures.

Now the hair of this Sigurd was golden-red of hue, fair of
fashion, and falling down in great locks; thick and short was his
beard, and of no other colour, high-nosed he was, broad and high-
boned of face; so keen were his eyes, that few durst gaze up
under the brows of him; his shoulders were as broad to look on as
the shoulders of two; most duly was his body fashioned betwixt
height and breadth, and in such wise as was seemliest; and this
is the sign told of his height, that when he was girt with his
sword Gram, which same was seven spans long, as he went through
the full-grown rye-fields, the dew-shoe of the said sword smote
the ears of the standing corn; and, for all that, ;~greater was
his strength than his growth: well could he wield sword, and cast
forth spear, shoot shaft, and hold shield, bend bow, back horse,
and do all the goodly deeds that he learned in his youth's days.

Wise he was to know things yet undone; and the voice of all fowls