Sigurd

Definition: Sigurd

Sigurd

Noun

1. (Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart.

"Sigurd" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory", "a guardian".

Date "Sigurd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Sigurd The Norse Siegfried (q.v.). He falls in love with Brynhild, but, under the influence of a love-potion, marries Gudrun, a union which brings about a volume of mischief. Sigurd the Horny. A German romance based on a legend in the Sagas. An analysis of this legend is published by Weber in his Illustrations of Northern Antiquities.' (See Siegfried, Horny. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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In Norse mythology, Sigurd (also Siegfried) was a legendary hero, as well as the central character in the Saga of the Volsungs and Richard Wagner's opera, Siegfried, which see for more details.

Sigurd was the foster son of Regin, who sent the young Sigurd to retrieve a fortune in gold that Regin's father, Hreidmar, acquired from Andvari. Regin and his brother, Fafnir, had killed Hreidmar for the gold. Fafnir then turned into a dragon because he wanted to keep all the gold for himself (dragons frequently symbolize greed in European folklore).

Regin forged a marvelous sword for Sigurd, but it quickly broke. Sigurd found his father's (Sigmund) sword, Gram (or Balmung) and a cloak of invisibility, and had it fixed and reforged by Mimir and used it to kill Fafnir. He gained wisdom from licking the dragon's blood because Fafnir could talk to birds. Sigurd, who had discovered that Regin was planning on killing him to get the gold, killed his stepfather and took the gold.

Sigurd then rescued the Valkyrie Brünnehilde, who had been imprisoned in a ring of fire by her father, Odin, for her insubordination. She had either been cursed to stay there in a charmed sleep until rescued by a brave enough hero and/or she swore to only marry the hero who rescued her. Sigurd bravely entered the ring of fire (in the shape of a hero who had previously failed at the task, Gunnar), awoke her from a magical sleep; they fell in love and he gave her his cursed ring, Andvarinaut, unaware that it was cursed. Sigurd then betrayed Brünnehilde for a different woman, Gudrun (Gunnar's sister), because he was unknowingly bewitched by the sorceress Grimhild. Brünnehilde killed herself.

Sigurd, Utah

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Sigurd is a town located in Sevier County, Utah. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 430.

Geography

Sigurd is located at 38°51'7" North, 111°57'54" West (38.851990, -111.965110)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.7 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.7 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 430 people, 128 households, and 108 families residing in the town. The population density is 158.1/km² (411.1/mi²). There are 147 housing units at an average density of 54.1/km² (140.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.28% White, 0.00% African American, 1.40% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other races, and 1.40% from two or more races. 2.33% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 128 households out of which 46.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.5% are married couples living together, 9.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 15.6% are non-families. 15.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.36 and the average family size is 3.69. In the town the population is spread out with 36.0% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 17.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 28 years. For every 100 females there are 108.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $32,813, and the median income for a family is $36,250. Males have a median income of $31,591 versus $17,500 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,377. 11.2% of the population and 9.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.9% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

Crosswords: Sigurd

English words defined with "Sigurd": Fafnir ♦ Siegfried. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Silje & Sigurd - et slags reiseprogram (2000)

Sigurd Drakedreper (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson (reference) Sigurd Archdiocese: Forces Book (Silent Death, the Next Millennium) (reference) Sigurd F. Olson's Wilderness Days: A Season-by-Season Selection of the Best-Loved Writings of One of America's Best-Loved Nature Writers (reference) Sigurd Hoel's Fiction: Cultural Criticism and Tragic Vision (reference) Sigurd Lewerentz: 1885 1975 (reference) (more book examples)

Music	American Tribute to Sigurd Ras (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sigurd T. Olson and Black-tailed Fawn. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The Defense Study 2000 Report, issued by the Chief of Defense General Sigurd Frisvold (ChoD), is a resource based, not a requirements based, study. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sigurd" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sigurd" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	11	106,044

"Sigurd" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory", "a guardian".

The following table summarizes names related to "Sigurd."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Sjurd	Male	Norwegian	Sigurd
Sigurd	Male	Scandinavian	N/A
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1. Sigurd, UT (town, FIPS 68650)
Location: 38.85037 N, 111.96542 W
Population (1990): 385 (131 housing units)
Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sigurd

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sigurd	13
sigurd utah	6
sigurd olson	6
rascher sigurd	5
sigurd volsung	2
sigurd lewerentz	2
sigurd hoel	2
sigurd the dragon slayer	2
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Anagrams: Sigurd

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: drugs, girds, grids, guids.
	-2 letters: digs, drug, dugs, gids, gird, grid, guid, rids, rigs, rugs, surd, urds.
	-3 letters: dig, dis, dug, dui, gid, ids, rid, rig, rug, sir, sri, urd.
	-4 letters: id, is, si, us.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-i-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: guiders, guisard, ungirds, upgirds.
	+2 letters: druggies, druggist, guilders, guisards, pagurids, sludgier, smudgier.
	+3 letters: crusading, demiurges, disfigure, disguiser, divulgers, drubbings, druggiest, druggists, gauderies, groupoids, guardians, gueridons, indulgers, misguider, rigaudons, shrouding, strouding, sundering.
	+4 letters: audiograms, burgundies, debruising, desugaring, disbursing, discourage, disfigured, disfigures, disgruntle, disguisers, disrupting, distraught, disturbing, drudgeries, fireguards, gerundives, gradualism, gradualist, gratitudes, groundfish, groundings, guardrails, humdingers, lifeguards, misguiders, mudslinger, negritudes, persuading, prodigious, resounding, restudying, roughdries, ruggedizes, shuddering, stroudings, transuding, turgidness, undergirds, underlings, underwings, undressing, vulgarised.
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