n.
The warrior hero of the Nibelungenlied and other Germanic medieval epics, whose story is essentially that of his Norse prototype Sigurd.
[German, from Middle High German Sīgfrit, from Old High German Sigifrith : sigu, victory + fridu, peace.]
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