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Sigurd is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by the French composer Ernest Reyer on a libretto by Camille du Locle and Alfred Blau.Like Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, the story is based on the Nibelungenlied and the Eddas, with some crucial differences from the better known Wagnerian version (the role of the supernatural is limited and replaced in large part by fate; the initial version of ...
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]
Sigurd, the King's Son (Icelandic: Sigurður kóngsson) is an Icelandic fairy tale collected and published by author Jón Árnason. It is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband , wherein a human princess marries a prince under an animal curse, loses him and has to search for him.
Sigurd plunges his sword into Fáfnir's chest in this illustration by Arthur Rackham. Fáfnismál ( Fáfnir 's sayings ) is an Eddic poem , found in the Codex Regius manuscript. The poem is unnamed in the manuscript, where it follows Reginsmál and precedes Sigrdrífumál , but modern scholars regard it as a separate poem and have assigned it a ...
However, her and Sigurd's daughter Svanhildr would go far away, and due to Bikki's words, Jörmunrekkr would slay Svanhhildr in wrath. [25] This would be the end of Sigurd's line and this would increase the sorrow of Guðrún. Brynhild's last wish was that Sigurd's pyre be built wide enough for both her and Sigurd.
The music of Sigurd, however, is quite unlike the music of Wagner. While Reyer admired Wagner, he developed his music more along the lines of his mentor, Hector Berlioz. Listening to Sigurd, one cannot help but hear echoes of Les Troyens or Benvenuto Cellini, imbued with the same heroic musical posture.
Drawing of the Ramsund carving from c. 1030, illustrating the Völsunga saga on a rock in Sweden.At (1), Sigurd sits in front of the fire preparing the dragon's heart. The Völsunga saga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the ...
The Sigurd series was published until 1960 with a total of 324 books and after 1958 received a reprint in 124 booklets in large format. Later "Sigurd" also appeared as a radio drama in Germany. The earliest issues of "Sigurd" have been auctioned for as much as 3,000 Euro. Other Wäscher comics also reach high prices in auction.