Siggeir

[ sig-gair ]

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noun

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In that hall, when Volsung's daughter was to be given away to Siggeir, king of Gothland, in came an old guest with one eye.

We on our canvas wrought how Sigar and Siggeir both contended southward in Fyen.

Siggeir invites the kin of his wife to visit him, and then slays Volsung and all his sons, save Sigmund.

No hint is ever made of any possibility of reconciliation between Siggeir and the kin of the men he has slain.

These things do not suggest that we ought to read a King Siggeir treachery into the story of Finn.

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