Siggeir

[ sig-gair ]

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noun

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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.

Siggeir's very wife helps her brother Sigmund to his revenge.

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

Signy leaves the home of her father Volsung and her brother Sigmund to wed King Siggeir.

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