Helgi Hundingsbane

Son of Sigmund by Borghild and half-brother of Sigurd. The hero of the two Helgi-lays of the Poetic Edda: slayer of Hunding, beloved of the valkyrie Sigrún, and — uniquely in the corpus — a dead hero who rides back from the grave to his mourning bride, a haunting attached to the belief that the lovers were reborn.

Parentage

• Sigmund
• Borghild

Relations

• father: Sigmund
• sibling: Sigurd
• spouse: Sigrún

Sources

• Helgakviða Hundingsbana I & II (Poetic Edda)
• Vǫlsunga saga ch. 9