Sigurd

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In Nordic tradition, Sigurd or Sigvard, in German tradition, Siegfried, is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon — known in Nordic tradition as Fafnir (Old Norse: Fáfnir) — and who was later murdered. He has several epithets, such as "Fáfnir's bane" (Old Norse: Fáfnisbani) in the Icelandic sagas, "the horn-skinned" (der hürnîn) in medieval German texts, "Swift lad" (Snaresven, Snarensven, Snarensvend, Snaresvend) in Scandinavian medieval ballads, and especially in modern times "the Dragon Slayer" (German: der Drachentöter, Swedish: drakdödaren, drakdräparen). In both the Norse and continental Germanic traditions, Sigurd is portrayed as dying as the result of a quarrel between his wife (Gudrun/Kriemhild) and another woman, Brunhild, whom he had unknowingly tricked into marrying the Burgundian king Gunnar/Gunther. His slaying of a dragon and possession of the hoard of the Nibelungen is also common to both traditions. In other respects, however, the two traditions...

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