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Sigyn (Old Norse "(woman) friend of victory" [1]) is a deity from Norse mythology. She is attested in the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson .
Signy or Signe (Old Norse: Signý, sometimes known as German: Sieglinde) is the name of two heroines in two connected legends from Norse mythology which were very popular in medieval Scandinavia. Both appear in the Völsunga saga , which was adapted into other works such as Wagner's 'Ring' cycle , including its famous opera Die Walküre .
Old Norse Yngvi, Old High German Ing/Ingwi [1] and Old English Ing are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr. Proto-Germanic Ingwaz was the legendary ancestor of the Ingaevones , or more accurately Ingvaeones , and is also the reconstructed name of the Elder Futhark rune ᛜ and Anglo-Saxon ...
The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively).
Völsung (Old Norse: Vǫlsungr [ˈvɔlsuŋɡr̩], Old English: Wæls) is a figure in Germanic mythology, where he is the eponymous ancestor of the Völsung family (Old Norse: Vǫlsungar, Old English: Wælsings), which includes the hero Sigurð. [1] In Nordic mythology, he is the son of Rerir and was murdered by the Geatish king Siggeir.
Sigrún (Old Norse "victory rune" [1]) is a valkyrie in Norse mythology. Her story is related in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, in the Poetic Edda. The original editor annotated that she was Sváfa reborn. The hero Helgi Hundingsbane first meets her when she leads a band of nine Valkyries:
Sigrid the Haughty (Old Norse:Sigríðr (hin) stórráða), also known as Sigrid Storråda (), is a Scandinavian queen appearing in Norse sagas.Sigrid is named in several late and sometimes contradictory Icelandic sagas composed generations after the events the stories describe, but there is no reliable, historical evidence attesting to the veracity of her depiction in those tales.
An illustration of Lífþrasir and Líf (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.. In Norse mythology, Líf (identical with the Old Norse noun meaning "life, the life of the body") [1] and Lífþrasir (Old Norse masculine name from líf and þrasir and defined by Lexicon Poëticum as "Livæ amator, vitæ amans, vitæ cupidus" "Líf's lover, lover of life, zest for life"), [2] sometimes anglicized as Lif and ...