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This may be a minor variant of the Sigurd story, [139] or it is possible that the original dragon slayer was Sigmund, and the story was transferred from father to son. [140] Alternatively, it is possible that Sigurd and Sigmund were originally the same figure, and were only later split into father and son.
Reginn praises Sigurd for slaying the dragon, but takes credit for making the sword that allowed him to do it. Sigurd replies saying courage is more important than a weapon and blames Reginn for tricking him into killing Fáfnir. Reginn cuts out Fáfnir's heart and drinks the blood, and Sigurd cooks the heart over the fire for Reginn to eat.
Sigurd hides and stabs the dragon in the heart. As Fafnir's black blood drains over Sigurd and hardens his flesh, the young warrior withdraws his sword and leaps into the dragon's sight. As the dragon dies, Regin attempts to claim some of the gold. Regin draws a knife and cuts out Fafnir's heart. Ordering Sigurd to roast it for him, Regin departs.
"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.
Identifications are sometimes further supported by surrounding imagery consistent with the story of Fáfnir, and comparisons with other depictions. [34] Some Sigurd stones depict scenes from the story of Fáfnir. Most commonly, Fáfnir is presented as a worm that encircles the stone and is killed by Sigurð, who is shown stabbing from beneath.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
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 ...
A depiction of Sigurd with Gram on the Ramsund carving, dated to around the year 1030. In Norse mythology, Gram (Old Norse Gramr, meaning "Wrath"), [1] also known as Balmung or Nothung, is the sword that Sigurd used to kill the dragon Fafnir. [2] It is primarily used by the Völsungs in the Volsunga Saga.