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Siegfried is a German-language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements sig "victory" and frithu "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr , which gives rise to Swedish Sigfrid (hypocorisms Sigge, Siffer ), Danish/Norwegian Sigfred .
The names Sigurd and Siegfried do not share the same etymology. Both have the same first element, Proto-Germanic *sigi-, meaning victory.The second elements of the two names are different, however: in Siegfried, it is Proto-Germanic *-frið, meaning peace; in Sigurd, it is Proto-Germanic *-ward, meaning protection. [3]
Siegfried (German: [ˈziːk.fʀiːt] ⓘ), WWV 86C, is the third of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung).
Siegfried was born Siegfried Fischbacher in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany on June 13, 1939 to Martin and Maria Fischbacher. [6] His mother was a housewife and his father was a professional painter who, during World War II, ended up as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. Fischbacher purchased a book about magic tricks as a child and began to ...
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). The title character Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, masters the art of forging a sword at the shop of Mime.Siegfried hears the tales of the kingdom of Burgundy, the kings who rule there, as well as of Kriemhild, the princess of Burgundy.
Sigfried (or Siegfried) (c. 922 – 28 October 998) was count in the Ardennes, and is known in European historiography as founder and first ruler of the Castle of Luxembourg in 963 AD, and ancestor and predecessor of the future counts and dukes of Luxembourg. [1]
Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 25 December 1870, [1] by a small ensemble of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen (today part of Lucerne), Switzerland.
Siegfried de Guînes (died c. 965) (Latin: Sifridus Dacus), also known as Siegfried "the Dane" (Sifridus de Dachia), Sigifrid, or Sigifroy, [1] was a Viking who controlled the area around Guînes in 928, although he never seemed to be formally designated as Count even though he is known as such. [2] He is the founder of the line of the Counts ...