Siggeir

King of the Goths. Siggeir induced Volsung to allow him to marry Signy. Signy however was not happy with it. When an old man stuck a beautiful magic sword in the great oak tree Branstock, no one could draw the sword out except Sigmund, Volsung's young son. When Siggeir asked Sigmund if he could buy the sword from him, the youth refused.

Jealous of Sigmund's prowess and obsessed with the sword, Siggeir was determined to destroy his in-laws. When he invited Volsung and his sons to his kingdom, he ambushed his in-laws, killing Volsung and capturing his sons. He had Volsung's sons chained to trees in the wood. Each night, one of Signy's brothers was killed by a she-wolf. Only Sigmund survived. His wife and Sigmund plotted to avenge their father's and brothers' death. Signy's two eldest sons to Siggeir were sent to Sigmund, when they turned eleven years old. But each of them was too weak and frightened; Signy ordered Sigmund to kill her sons. Knowing that none of her sons to Siggeir would be strong enough to help her brother exact revenge upon her husband. Signy secretly slept with her brother, and became the mother of Sinfjotli.

Siggeir's last two children were killed by Sinfjotli. Sigmund and Sinfjotli later killed Siggeir and his men by burning his palace down. Signy died with her hated husband, after revealing to her brother that Sinfjotli was his real son.