Hagbard and Signe (Signy) (the Viking Age) or Habor and Sign(h)ild (the Middle Ages and later) were a pair of lovers in Scandinavian mythology and folklore whose legend was widely popular. The heroes' connections with other legendary characters place the events in the 5th century AD. Hagbard and his brother Haki were famous sea-kings (see Haki for his battles over the throne of Sweden). Like the name Hagbard (Hagbarðr), the legend is believed to have continental Germanic origins.[1]
^Peterson, Lena. (2002). Nordiskt runnamnslexikon, at Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Sweden. Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
Hagbardand Signe (Signy) (the Viking Age) or Habor and Sign(h)ild (the Middle Ages and later) were a pair of lovers in Scandinavian mythology and folklore...
this to Signy who set her house on fire and died in the flames whereupon Hagbard hanged himself in the gallows. See HagbardandSigny. A third Signy is the...
until recent times in the legend of HagbardandSigny. This famous legend tells that Hagbard fell in love with Signy, the daughter of king Sigar, the nephew...
based on the story of HagbardandSigny from the twelfth-century work Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Gitte Hænning...
Yngvi, and he had reclaimed the throne of Sweden for his dynasty from Haki (the brother of Hagbard, the hero of the legend of HagbardandSigny. Snorri...
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...
(Greek) Gilgamesh and Enkidu (Sumerian) HagbardandSigny (Norse) Hector and Andromache (Greek) Helios and Clymene (Greek) Hephaestus/Vulcan and Aphrodite/Venus...
Hagbard (the hero of the legend of HagbardandSigny) were two famous sea-kings who had amassed a great force of warriors, and they occasionally plundered together...
Norse legend of HagbardandSigny. In Chapter 5 of the Ynglinga saga section of his Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson relates that Odin and the Æsir first...
transmitted orally, traveled widely among the Germanic speaking peoples, and were known in many variants. These legends typically reworked historical...
was Sigar, father of Signý, that Sigar who caused Hagbard (Hagbarðr) to be hanged. One of the sources where the story of Hagbard appears is in Gesta Danorum...
legends of ancient Scandinavia, see HagbardandSigny). When Haki considered that he had amassed enough wealth and followers to make himself the king of...
saga. In Skáldskaparmál he is given as a Sikling and a relative of Sigar who killed the hero Hagbard. Hversu Noregr byggðist specifies that the last Sigar...
in 1812. He submitted the painting "Habor og Signe" (HagbardandSigny) for consideration, and he was accepted into the Academy in 1814. While his Nordic-themed...
engaged in charitable work and wrote about her life Hagbard Emanuel Berner (1839 in Sunndal – 1920), a jurist, politician, and newspaper editor Nils Sletbak...
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