]] Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr) was a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Völsunga saga. The earliest extant representations for his legend come in pictoral form from seven runestones in Sweden[LINK: http://www.foteviken.se/sweden/gastrik/arsunda/arsunda2.htm] An article at the Museum of Foteviken, Sweden, retrieved January 19, 2007. and most notably the Ramsund carving (c. 1000) and the Gök Runestone (11th century). As Siegfried, he is the hero in the German Nibelungenlied, and Richard Wagner's operas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. As Sivard Snarensven(d) he was the hero of several medieval Scandinavian ballads. The name Sigurðr is an Icelandic or Norwegian corruption of the German Siegfried as the correct Old Norse would have been Sigruþr

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