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» This article is about members of the villainous Sikling clan. For the free software library, see Sigar (software).
The name
Sigar can refer to three people in
Scandinavian mythology, surrounding the legends of
Sigurd the dragon slayer. One of them only appears as the friend of
Helgi Hjörvarðsson in the
eddic lay Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. The other two appear as the villainous members of the same
clan in several sources.
Icelandic sources
Snorri Sturluson writes in the
Skáldskaparmál that two Sigars belong to the same
clan, the
Siklings, and that they're the relatives of
Siggeir, the villainous
Geatish king in the
Völsunga saga.
In
Hversu Noregr byggðist, it's given in more detail that Sigar the elder had two sons, Sigmund and Siggeir who killed
Völsung. Sigmund had the son Sigar the younger, who killed Hagbard.
It is told in the
Völsunga saga that Sigar the younger was in a feud with
Hagbard and
Haki and his sons. He had kidnapped one of Haki's daughters and murdered a second:
Háleygjatal (as quoted in
Ynglinga saga), where a gallows is referred to as "Sigar's steed" (
Sigars jó):
» En Guðlaugr
:grimman tamdi » við ofrkapp
austrkonunga » Sigars jó,
er synir Yngva » menglötuð
við meið reiddu. » Og náreiðr
á nesi drúpir » vingameiðr,
þar er víkur deilir, » þar er fjölkunnt
um fylkis hreyr » steini merkt,
Straumeyjarnes.
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» By the fierce East-kings' cruel pride,
:Gudlog must on the wild horse ride -- » The wildest horse you e'er did see:
'Tis Sigur's steed -- the gallows tree. » At Stromones the tree did grow,
Where Gudlog's corpse waves on the bough. » A high stone stands on Stromo's heath,
To tell the gallant hero's death.
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Gesta Danorum
In
Gesta Danorum (book 7), Saxo tells that Sigar had a daughter named
Signy. Sigar was in a feud with Haki's brother
Hagbard, but was informed by Signy's handmaid, that Hagbard had a secret love affair with Signy. Sigar decided to hang Hagbard, who, however, managed to inform Signy of this. Signy set her house on fire and succumbed in the flames while Hagbard executed himself in the gallows. Sigar tried in vain to save both Hagbard and Signy but failed. His only consolation was to bury the treacherous maid alive.
Gesta Danorum disagrees with the other sources by presenting Sigar as the son of
Sywaldus, who was the son of
Ungvinus, a
Geatish king who became the king of Denmark.
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