Sigurd
Norse · scion · mythic prehistoric · scion
Sigurðr Fáfnisbani, the supreme hero of the North and the Siegfried of continental legend. Posthumous son of Sigmund; reforged his father's sword Gram, slew the dragon Fáfnir, took the cursed hoard and the ring Andvaranaut, gained the speech of birds from the dragon's blood, and woke the valkyrie Brynhildr. His entanglement with the Gjúkungs and Brynhildr brings about his murder and the curse's spread through the Niflung line.
Parentage
Children
Powers
- Understands the speech of birds
- Slayer of the dragon Fáfnir
Epithets
- Fáfnisbani
Relations
- father: Sigmund
- sibling: Helgi Hundingsbane
- father of: Áslaug
- father of: Svanhild
- lover: Brynhildr
- spouse: Gudrún