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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 .
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).
Sigyn is a goddess and wife of Loki in Norse mythology. Sigyn may also refer to: Sigyn (ship), a wooden barque of 1887, now museum ship in Turku; MS Sigyn, a ship that transports spent nuclear fuel from Swedish nuclear power plants to Clab; Sigyn, a genus of parasitic isopods in the family Bopyridae
"Sigmund's Sword" (1889) by Johannes Gehrts. In the Völsunga saga, Signý marries Siggeir, the king of Gautland (modern Västergötland).Völsung and Sigmund are attending the wedding feast (which lasted for some time before and after the marriage), when Odin, disguised as a beggar, plunges a sword into the living tree Barnstokk ("offspring-trunk" [1]) around which Völsung's hall is built.
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:
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.
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 ...