Talk:Sigmund

Chronology

The chronology is wrong. Signy first conceives children with Siggeir; Sigmund has commanded her to send her children to him so he may test their manliness by telling them to knead dough, wherein he has hidden a snake. Being the offspring of Siggeir, they are of course hopeless wussies and Signy kills them. In despair, Signy disguises herself and conceives Sinfjøtle with Sigurd. /roger.duprat.denmark

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Will people who don't know the meaning of the word 'irony" stop using it? no sorry 75.177.36.154 (talk) 04:03, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Proposed merger with Sigemund the Wælsing

I propose merging into this page Sigemund the Wælsing. This is widely seen as the same figure as Sigmund, just in an English attestation. This page is quite short and can easily incorporate the material from the other page and it'd be useful to discuss them both in the same place. Ingwina (talk) 07:25, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Question Do you have a source that you could cite for that in the merged article? Would you merge it to a section or wholly integrate the source article? ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 16:59, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Ingwina, checking in to see if you're still interested in this or if it's an inactive proposal. ScrubbedFalcon has raised some points that also need to be addressed before there's consensus to merge. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:55, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Sorry - I missed this. Thanks for the tag.

There are lots of sources that cover this. One is actually already cited on Sigemund the Wælsing - "The Saga of the Volsungs" by Jackson Crawford, which states "Much earlier, the Old English poem Beowulf... mentions two Volsung heroes by name Sigemund Wælsing (= Old Norse Sigmund, the Volsung)".

I would propose this article gets integrated into the section currently entitled "Relation to other Germanic heroes" but I think would make more sense just being "Beowulf", in keeping with "Völsunga saga" above. There really isn't much grounds for considering him a distinct hero just because his name is English (see for example Sigurd and Wayland the Smith where all attestations are on the same page regardless of language). Ingwina (talk) 07:02, 15 March 2026 (UTC)