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The probable site of his burial mound, Sigurd's Howe, is shown. Máel Brigte, also known as Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed or Máel Brigte Tusk [1] was a 9th-century Pictish nobleman, most probably a mormaer of Moray. He was responsible – in a bizarre posthumous incident – for the death of Earl Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney.
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (Old Norse: Sigurðr ormr í auga) or Sigurd Ragnarsson was a semi-legendary Viking warrior and Danish king active from the mid to late 9th century. According to multiple saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug . [ 1 ]
The probable site of his burial mound, Sigurd's Howe, is shown. Sigurd Eysteinsson, or Sigurd the Mighty (reigned c. 875–892 [1]), was the second Earl of Orkney—a title bequeathed to Sigurd by his brother Rognvald Eysteinsson. A son of Eystein Glumra, Sigurd was a leader in the Viking conquest of what is now northern Scotland.
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 ...
Numerous Norwegian churches from the late twelfth and early 13th centuries depict scenes from the Sigurd story on their front portals. [126] The most famous of these is the Hylestad Stave Church , likely from around 1200. [ 127 ]
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye marries king Ælla's daughter Blaeja and they have a son named Harthacnut, who succeeds his father as the king of Zealand, Scania and Halland, but Viken rebels and breaks loose. Harthacanute has a son named Gorm, who is big and strong but not as wise as his ancestors.
The Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok is said to have been thrown into a snake pit and died there, after his army had been defeated in battle by King Aelle II of Northumbria. An older legend recorded in Atlakviða and Oddrúnargrátr tells that Attila the Hun murdered Gunnarr , the King of Burgundy , in a snake pit.
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.