The dragonslayer Sigurd was an ancestral figure and archetype for Germanic aristocracy.
Sigurdsristningen in Sweden is the Ramsund carving (Sigurd stone) made in the early 11th century in memorial of a man named Sigröd by the command of his widow Sigriþr – the names of these aristocrats suggest that these people believed themselves descendants of Sigurd who was himself descended from Odin.
Sigurd’s story is famous around Europe, it is most well-known from the Old Norse sources Þiðrekssaga and Völsunga saga as well as the medieval German Nibelungenlied in which Sigurd is known as Siegfried – this was the inspiration for Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle opera. In Beowulf, Sigurd’s grandfather Volsung is referred to in Old English as Wæls.
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Gotterdammerung: Siegfriend's Funeral March, Finale
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