Sigurd, << SIHG urd, >> is the Scandinavian name for the legendary German hero Siegfried. Stories about him probably originated in the A.D. 400’s and soon reached Scandinavia. They were given poetic treatment in the Elder Edda, a collection of poems composed in Iceland during the 1000’s and 1100’s. The prose Saga of the Volsungs, written in Iceland during the 1100’s or 1200’s, tells the stories more fully.
See also Edda; Fafnir; Nibelungenlied; Siegfried.
