Sigar
Role: king · First appears: Book Seven · Part 7
After Siwald (father of Sigrid and Sigar) was succeeded by Sigar in Book Seven · Part 7, Sigar had three sons—Siwald, Alf and Alger—and a daughter, Signe. In Book Seven · Part 9, he was accustomed to conduct affairs with the advice of two old men, one of whom was Bolwis; Bolwis’s slanders later broke the alliance between Sigar’s sons and the sons of Hamund.
In Book Seven · Part 11, Hagbard fought Sigar’s men, killed many at the doorway, and was captured. In Book Seven · Part 12, Hakon defeated and slew Sigar at Walbrunna. At that point, Siwald, his son, had until then remained under his father’s roof.
Relationship record
Life events
- Sigar succeeded Siwald.(Book Seven · Part 7)
- With: Siwald (father of Sigrid and Sigar)
- “After this Siwald was succeeded by his son SIGAR”
- Sigar had sons Siwald, Alf, and Alger, and a daughter Signe.(Book Seven · Part 7)
- With: Siwald (son of Sigar) Alf (son of Sigar) Alger Signe (daughter of Sigar)
- “who had sons Siwald, Alf, and Alger, and a daughter Signe.”
- Bolwis's slanders broke the alliance between the sons of Sigar and the sons of Hamund.(Book Seven · Part 10)
- With: Bolwis Hamund (father of Hagbard)
- “Thus the alliance of the young men was broken through;”
- Hagbard fought Sigar’s men, slew many, and was captured.(Book Seven · Part 11 · 📍 doorway)
- With: Hagbard
- “when Sigar's men-at-arms attacked him, he defended himself long and stubbornly, and slew many of them in the doorway. But at last he was taken”
- Hakon defeated Sigar, who was slain at Walbrunna.(Book Seven · Part 12 · 📍 Herwig)
- With: Hakon (son of Hamund)
- “Sigar fought unsuccessfully, and was crushed and slain at the spot that is called in common speech Walbrunna, but in Latin the Spring of Corpses or Carnage.”
- After defeating Sigar, Hakon ordered a ruthless massacre of women and children.(Book Seven · Part 12)
- With: Hakon (son of Hamund)
- “Then Hakon used his conquest to cruel purpose, and followed up his good fortune so wickedly, that he lusted for an indiscriminate massacre, and thought no forbearance should be shown to rank or sex. Nor did he yield to any regard for compassion or shame, but stained his sword in the blood of women, and attacked mothers and children in one general and ruthless slaughter.”
- Siwald had stayed under his father Sigar’s roof.(Book Seven · Part 12)
- With: Siwald (son of Sigar)
- “SIWALD, the son of Sigar, had thus far stayed under his father's roof.”
Book Seven · Part 7
- parent: Siwald (father of Sigrid and Sigar) “After this Siwald was succeeded by his son SIGAR, who had sons Siwald, Alf, and Alger, and a daughter Signe.”
- child: Siwald (son of Sigar) “After this Siwald was succeeded by his son SIGAR, who had sons Siwald, Alf, and Alger, and a daughter Signe.”
- child: Alf (son of Sigar) “After this Siwald was succeeded by his son SIGAR, who had sons Siwald, Alf, and Alger, and a daughter Signe.”
- child: Alger “After this Siwald was succeeded by his son SIGAR, who had sons Siwald, Alf, and Alger, and a daughter Signe.”
- child: Signe (daughter of Sigar) “After this Siwald was succeeded by his son SIGAR, who had sons Siwald, Alf, and Alger, and a daughter Signe.”
Book Seven · Part 8
- child: Alf (son of Sigar) “Alf, the son of Sigar, thinking that peril of the attempt only made it nobler, declared himself a wooer, and went to subdue the beasts that kept watch beside the room of the maiden; inasmuch as, according to the decree, the embraces of the maiden were the prize of their subduer.”
Book Seven · Part 9
- child: Signe (daughter of Sigar) “Signe, the daughter of Sigar.”
- vassal: Bolwis (Bolwis was one of King Sigar's advisers.) “For King Sigar had been used to transact almost all affairs by the advice of two old men, one of whom was Bolwis.”
Book Seven · Part 10
- child: Signe (daughter of Sigar) “Afterwards Hagbard dressed himself in woman's attire, and, as though he had not wronged Sigar's daughter by slaying her brothers, went back to her alone, trusting in the promise he had from her, and feeling more safe in her loyalty than alarmed by reason of his own misdeed.”
Book Seven · Part 11
- enemies with Hagbard “The serving-women betrayed him; and when Sigar's men-at-arms attacked him, he defended himself long and stubbornly, and slew many of them in the doorway.”
Book Seven · Part 12
- enemies with Hakon (son of Hamund) (Hakon son of Hamund fought Sigar.) “Sigar fought unsuccessfully, and was crushed and slain at the spot that is called in common speech Walbrunna, but in Latin the Spring of Corpses or Carnage.”
- child: Siwald (son of Sigar) “SIWALD, the son of Sigar, had thus far stayed under his father's roof.”
- recipient: Starkad “the aged Sigar, whose hospitality he had enjoyed”
Book Seven · Part 13
- younger kin: Gurid “GURID alone, the daughter of Alf, and granddaughter of Sigar.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.