Regin

American  

[rey-gin] / ˈreɪ gɪn /

noun

1. a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.

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Regin British  

/ ˈreɪɡɪn /

noun

1. Norse myth a dwarf smith, tutor of Sigurd, whom he encouraged to kill Fafnir for the gold he guarded

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Regin

The last was his son, Kraken points leader Bjorkstrand, raised in Herning with the other four — Frans Nielsen, Peter Regin, Nicklas Jensen and Andersen.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

The Regin and Gotham were each fined $50,000.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

There are no complete records of how many people were seized, but a careful study by the Danish scholar Regin Schmidt estimates the total arrested in the Palmer Raids at ten thousand.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019

Symantec says the bug, named Regin, was probably created by a government and has been used for six years against a range of targets around the world.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2014

So Sigurd rode alone over the heath, and when he came to the marks where the tracks lay deep he began to dig a pit, as Regin had told him.

From Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton