Sig·urd

(sĭg′ərd)

n. Norse Mythology

A warrior hero who won an accursed hoard of gold, awakened Brynhild from her enchanted sleep, married a princess, and was slain through Brynhild's jealous contrivance.

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Sigurd

(ˈsɪɡʊəd; German ˈziːɡʊrt)

(Norse Myth & Legend) Norse myth a hero who killed the dragon Fafnir to gain the treasure of Andvari, won Brynhild for Gunnar by deception, and then was killed by her when she discovered the fraud. His wife was Gudrun. German counterpart: Siegfried

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Sig•urd

(ˈsɪg ərd; Ger. ˈzi gʊrt)

n.

(in the Volsunga Saga) a hero who killed the dragon Fafnir.

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Sigurd - (Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart

Norse mythology - the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity

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There were once a King and a Queen, and they had a son called Sigurd, who was very strong and active, and good-looking.

Sigurd was not averse to this, and asked his father where he thought it best to look for a wife.

Sigurd accepted this condition, but added that he would have to get leave to go home again to his own country when he heard news of his father's death.

Sigurd and his Queen were one day on deck, when most of the others on the ship had fallen asleep.

A good while after Sigurd had gone below the Queen saw something black on the sea, which seemed to be coming nearer.

Sigurd was greatly surprised to hear his Queen scold him so much, for she had never said an angry word to him before; but he thought it was quite excusable in this case, and tried to quiet the child along with her, but it was no use.

They soon reached the land which Sigurd was to rule over, and found all the people sorrowful for the old King's death, but they became glad when they got Sigurd back to the Court, and made him King over them.

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Was it simply that Elizabeth was one of that rare few who can touch pitch and not be defiled?--or was it, I have sometimes wondered, an unconscious and after all a sound casuistry that had saved Elizabeth's soul, an instinctive philosophy that taught her, so to say, to lay a Sigurd's sword between her soul and body, and to argue that nothing can defile the body without the consent of the soul.

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Jackson promised to knock Ah Moy's block off if he did not feed the puppy well, while Sigurd Halvorsen, in the forecastle, did his best to knock off Henrik Gjertsen's block when the latter was guilty of kicking Scraps out of his way.

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'The Earthly Paradise.' Shortly after this he became especially interested in Icelandic literature and published versions of some of its stories; notably one of the Siegfried tale, 'Sigurd the Volsung.' In the decade from

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'Captain Manzanca,' and 'Dust,' and 'In God's Ways,' and 'Sigurd,' and plays like "The Glove" and "The Bankrupt." He has never, as some authors have, dwindled in my sense; when I open his page, there I find him as large, and free, and bold as ever.

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Westness is mentioned in the Orkneyinga Saga - a historical narrative of the archipelago - as the home of Sigurd, a powerful 12th Century chieftain.

10th Century Viking hall unearthed in excavation; ARCHAEOLOGY Researchers find site that could have been used by high chieftain