Sigurd

[sig-erd, zee-goort]

noun

1. the son of Sigmund and Hjordis and the husband of Gudrun. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of Andvari, wins Brynhild for Gunnar, and is finally killed at the behest of Brynhild, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to Siegfried of the Nibelungenlied.

Sigurd

/ ˈziːɡʊrt, ˈsɪɡʊəd /

noun

1. German counterpart: Siegfried. 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

Example Sentences

With another low growl, Sigurd grabbed the horse’s reins in one giant fist.

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Or did he still think of Sigurd the way Anya did?

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Sigurd Lorange had 19 points and six rebounds for the Valkyries.

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Tragically, local skier Sigurd Hall died in the daredevil event in 1940.

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I have not gone to it, however, for my story, but to the Elder Edda, where the love and death of Sigurd and Brynhild and Gudrun are the subject of a number of the poems.

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