Stories tell of Siegfried fighting a dragon and gaining treasure from two brothers who were arguing over their inheritance. In the Norse Poetic Edda, these two tales are combined and described in detail. In German literature, they are completely separate stories, and the available information is brief, mostly appearing as references rather than full accounts. A later German poem also centers on the release of a maiden from a dragon.
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