Volsung

Family: Volsungs · Role: father of Sigmund · First appears: Elder Edda · The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingcide · Part 1

Life events

• All Hogni's sons except Dag and all their chiefs were slain; Dag obtained peace and swore oaths to the Volsungs.(Elder Edda · The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingcide · Part 1)
  • With: Hogni (father of Sigrun) Bragi (son of Hogni) Dag
  • “There was a great battle, and all the sons of Hogni, and all their chiefs were slain, except Dag, who obtained peace, and swore oaths to the Volsungs.”

Elder Edda · The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingcide · Part 1

• child: Sigmund “King Sigmund, son of Volsung, had to wife Borghild of Bralund.”

Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · The Niflungs and Gjukungs · Part 1

• child: Sigmund “There he undertook the fostering of Sigurd (Sigfrid), the son of Sigmund, the son of Volsung and the son of Hjordis, the daughter of Eylime.”

Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · The Niflungs and Gjukungs · Part 3

• child: Sigmund “It is said that Sigmund, the son of Volsung, was so powerful, that he drank venom and received no harm therefrom.”

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