Sigurd

[ sig-erd; German zee-goort ]

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noun

the son of Sigmund and Hjordis and the husband of Gudrun. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of Andvari, wins Brynhild for Gunnar, and is finally killed at the behest of Brynhild, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to Siegfried of the Nibelungenlied.

Sigurd

/ ˈziːɡʊrt; ˈsɪɡʊəd /

Norse myth a hero who killed the dragon Fafnir to gain the treasure of Andvari, won Brynhild for Gunnar by deception, and then was killed by her when she discovered the fraud. His wife was Gudrun German counterpartSiegfried

Like Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur is in alliterative verse, a mode last fashionable in the 14th century.

Now Astrid conceived the desire that she should hie unto this her brother Sigurd.

Straightway did Sigurd take Olaf to the house of the Queen, and to her made known what had befallen.

Her name was Allogia, and Sigurd prayed for her grace to protect the lad.

As for the battle array, one wing consisted of the twenty ships belonging to Bui the Burly and his brother Sigurd.

Sigurd the lads call me, said he, and I am thought to be a son to Bui: not yet are all the vikings of Jomsborg dead.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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