Later, he appears as an old, one-eyed stranger and sticks his sword into the tree Barnstokkr during a feast at the palace of King Völsung, declaring that “ he who draws this sword out of the trunk shall receive it from me as a gift, and he himself shall prove that he has never carried a better sword than this one ,” which King Volsung ’ s son Sigmund does.

In Iceland, the tales of the Völsung cycle were expanded with native Scandinavian folklore, including that of Helgi Hundingsbane, which originally appears to have been part of a separate tradition, that of the Ylfings, and form the material of the epic poems in the Elder Edda and of Völsunga saga, which preserves material from lost poems.

According to Völsunga saga, Völsung was murdered by the Geatish king Siggeir and avenged by one of his sons, Sigmund, and his daughter Signy, who was married to Siggeir.

This greatly angered Siggeir, and he swore that one day the sword would be his and he would be revenged on the Völsung family.

Gram was forged by Wayland the Smith and originally belonged to his father, Sigmund, who received it in the hall of the Völsung after pulling it out of the tree Barnstokkr into which Odin had stuck it where no one else could pull it out.

Sigmund being of the Völsung line, Signý believes her brother will produce a son worthy of claiming a place in that line, and one night she " exchange shape " with a völva, goes to Sigmund in his underground dwelling, and spends three nights in his bed with Sigmund unaware that she is his sister in another form.

The hero Sigurðr Sigmundson ( Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied ), heir to the clan of Völsung and slayer of the dragon Fafnir, entered the castle and awoke Brynhildr by removing her helmet and cutting off her chainmail armour.

He also confused, or merged, Helgo with Helgi Hundingsbane, who in other sources is either a Völsung or a Geatish Wulfing ( Ylfing ).

He took part in the battles of Sigurd the Völsung, spent time with Ragnar Lodbrok's son Björn Ironside and his brothers, with Starkad, with the Swedish king Sigurd Ring, with King Erik at Uppsala, with King Harald Fairhair and with King Hlodver in Germany.

Sigmund / Siegmund is also the name of Sigurd / Siegfried's father in other versions of the Sigurd story, but without any of the details about his life or family that appear in Norse Völsung tales and poems.

In the northern version Atli is responsible for the death of her whole family, who inherited the name Völsung / Niebelungen from the Nibelung gold.

According to legend, he married Aslaug and became the son-in-law of Sigurd the Völsung.

He and his sister, Signý, are the children of Völsung and his wife Hljod.

Sigmund is best known as the father of Sigurð the dragon-slayer, though Sigurð's tale has almost no connections to the Völsung cycle.

Völsung and Sigmund are attending the wedding feast ( which lasted for some time before and after the marriage ), when Odin, disguised as a beggar, plunges a sword into the living tree Barnstokk (" offspring-trunk ") around which Völsung's hall is built.

He invites Sigmund, his father Völsung and Sigmund's nine brothers to visit him in Gautland to see the newlyweds three months later.

When the Völsung clan arrive, they are attacked by the Gauts ; King Völsung is killed and his sons captured.

Eventually, they avenge the death of Völsung.

In Norse mythology, Völsung ( Old Norse: Vǫlsungr ) was the son of Rerir and the eponymous ancestor of the ill-fortuned Völsung clan ( Vǫlsungar ), including the greatest of Norse heroes, Sigurð.

The Völsung Cycle is a series of legends about the clan, the earliest extant versions of which were recorded in medieval Iceland, and is also the subject matter of the Middle High German epic poem Nibelungenlied.

Völsung is also mentioned as Wæls in the Old English epic Beowulf: a Danish bard at Hrothgar's court sings about him and his son Sigemund.

Völsung was the great-grandson of Odin himself, and it was Odin's consort Frigg who made sure that Völsung would be born.

Völsung was a strong child and he kissed his mother before she died.

Völsung built himself a great hall in the centre of which stood a large oak tree called the Barnstokkr.

Both Völsung and his sons approved, but Signy was less enthusiastic.

Three months later Völsung and his sons sailed to Siggeir's land.

Völsung fell and his ten sons were taken captive.

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