>>18338340Fafnir and Regin seem an important part of this. It seems that there may have been surviving Neanderthals that integrated into ancient Norse society as craftsmen, becoming known as the Dwarves but then things get strange when Fafnir is described as shape-shifting into a Dragon. Tying him to the Deity Yahweh and It's Draconic attributes, this also explains the Krampus motif in these same Germanic locals. Krampus-folk readily read as maurading Neanderthals stealing into villages under the cover of darkness to abduct Children. Thus the events bacame mythologized but the urgency of the meaning was lost over time.
>>18338343https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estlSmsIGEM 