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Sigurd

The Norse Siegfried (q.v.). He falls in love with Brynhild, but, under the influence of a love-potion, marries Gudrun, a union which brings about a volume of mischief.

Sigurd the Horny.
A German romance based on a legend in the Sagas. An analysis of this legend is published by Weber in his Illustrations of Northern Antiquities.' (See Siegfried, Horny.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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