Sigar is a legendary human in Norse folklore, from Scandinavia. Sigar is an Old Norse personal name borne by several human figures in medieval Scandinavian legendary material. The name functions as an eponymic marker for a dynasty (the Siklings) and appears in saga cycles (notably the Völsung cycle) and in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum as mortal kings and feudants whose violent deeds shape lineage and succession.
In the corpus of Norse legendary history, Sigar is not a single unified figure but a personal name recurring across genealogies and feud-narratives. Snorri Sturluson links an attested Sigarr as an eponym — “the ninth, Sigarr, whence come the Siklings” — tying the name to the origin of the Sikling house. Hversu Noregr byggðist distinguishes a Sigar the elder, father of Sigmund and Siggeir (the latter being the killer of Völsung), and a Sigar the younger, grandson of Sigmund, who is credited with hanging Hagbard. Saxo's Latinized Sygarus appears as a legendary Danish king in Gesta Danorum book 7, whose household tragedies (the hanging of Hagbard, Signy's self-immolation) and wartime deaths of his sons figure in the restoration of the royal line through his surviving daughter. The textual record thus presents variant, sometimes divergent, legendary-historical placements rather than a single originating myth.
The sources present bearers of the name Sigar as human noblemen or kings within saga narratives; no supernatural or otherworldly physical traits are described in the provided material. Descriptions are conventional: Sigar appears as an ancestor in genealogical lists, as a royal householder in Saxo, and as a violent kin-member in the Völsung-related sagas. Specific narrative episodes emphasize actions (kidnapping, burning, hanging) rather than distinctive bodily features.
The Sigars' significance derives from their social roles and deadly actions rather than any supernatural abilities. Chronicle and saga passages attribute to them ordinary human capacities for rulership, warfare, and violent crime: Sigar the elder fathers sons whose deeds include the killing of Völsung; Sigar the younger hangs Hagbard and commits or instigates kidnapping and burning of women related to feud episodes; Saxo's Sygarus wages war in which he and his sons die defending Danish subjects and orders harsh punishments such as burying a maid alive. Their power in the narrative world is social and dynastic — affecting lineage, vengeance, and succession — not magical.
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- [2]Wikidata: Sigar. Wikidata entry for Sigar (identifier record consulted).other
- [3]Gesta Danorum (summary reference in secondary sources). Summary of Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum book 7 as provided in the cited secondary source compilation.literary