Hundingr (7)

Hundingr (non.)
Hunding (ger.)
In the Icelandic sources, Hunding is the father of Helgi Hundingsbane who appears in Volsunga saga and in the poemsHelgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II in the Poetic Edda.
In Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) in Der Ring des Nibelungen. Hunding is a conflation of Siggeir in Volsunga saga and and Hunding in two of the Helgi poems in the Poetic Edda.

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