Ridil

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German composer, choir director and musicologist, see Christian Ridil .

Ridil ( at . Riðill ) or refill is in Norse mythology, the sword with which Reginn that according to Edda song fáfnismál his dead brother Fafnir , who had accepted a dragon shape, cut out the heart, after his foster son Sigurd had slain this:

“ So Regin went to Fafnir and cut out his heart with the sword called Ridil, and then drank the blood from the wound. "

- Fáfnismál 26

literature

• Arnulf Krause: Reclam's lexicon of Germanic mythology and heroic saga. ISBN 978-3-15-010778-2 .