page_title: Sigurd
section_title: In Sweden
hierarchical_section_title: Sigurd / Scandinavian traditions and attestations / Pictorial Depictions / In Sweden
caption_attribution_description: Notera Av dokumentationsskäl har originalbeskrivningen från Riksantikvarieämbetet behållits. Tillrättalägganden och alternativa beskrivningar bör införas separat från nedanstående information. Felaktigheter kan även anmälas till denna sida. Bildframställning ur Sigurdssagan. Inskriften lyder: Vidbjörn och Karlung och Ärenger och Nase lät resa denna sten efter Ärenbjörn sin käcke fader. Motiv: U1163 Drävle Nyckelord: Runor Kategori: Runristning/runsten Bildframställning ur Sigurdssagan. Inskriften lyder: Vidbjörn och Karlung och Ärenger och Nase lät resa denna sten efter Ärenbjörn sin käcke fader. This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number 10020200660001 in the RAÄ Fornsök database.
context_page_description: Sigurd or Siegfried is a legendary hero of Germanic mythology, who killed a dragon and was later murdered. It is possible he was inspired by one or more figures from the Frankish Merovingian dynasty, with Sigebert I being the most popular contender. Older scholarship sometimes connected him with Arminius, victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. He may also have a purely mythological origin. Sigurd's story is first attested on a series of carvings, including runestones from Sweden and stone crosses from the British Isles, dating from the eleventh century.
  In both the Norse and continental Germanic tradition, Sigurd is portrayed as dying as the result of a quarrel between his wife and another woman, Brunhild, whom he has tricked into marrying the Burgundian king Gunnar/Gunther. His slaying of a dragon and possession of the hoard of the Nibelungen is also common to both traditions. In other respects, however, the two traditions appear to diverge. The most important works to feature Sigurd are the Nibelungenlied, the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda.
context_section_description: The Swedish material consists mostly of runestones which can be tentatively dated to the eleventh century. The earliest of these are from Södermanland, the Ramsund carving and the Gök runestone, which appears to be a copy of the former. The stones depict Sigurd killing Fafnir, Regin's headless body surrounded by his smithing tools, Sigurd cooking Fafnir's heart, and the birds advising Sigurd above Grani.
  Two more depictions come from Uppland, the Drävle runestone and a copy of it, the Storja Ramsjö runestone. Both show Sigurd killing Fafnir.
  Three further depictions come from Gästrikland, the Årsund runestone, the Ockelbo runestone, which has been lost, and the Öster-Färnebo runestone. Sigurd is depicted stabbing Fafnir so that his sword takes the appearance of a u-rune. Other scenes on the runestones cannot be identified with the Sigurd legend securely, and the text on the stones is unrelated.
caption: Sigurd with his sword, Andvari with the ring and Sigrdrífa with a drinking horn on the Drävle runestone from Uppland
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