Siegfried

[sig-freed, seeg-, zeek-freet]

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noun

(in theNibelungenlied ) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga.
(italics)��See The Ring of the Nibelung.
a male given name.

Siegfried

/ ˈziːkfriːt, ˈsiːɡfriːd /

noun

Norse equivalent: Sigurd.��German myth a German prince, the son of Sigmund and husband of Kriemhild, who, in the Nibelungenlied, assumes possession of the treasure of the Nibelungs by slaying the dragon that guards it, wins Brunhild for King Gunther, and is eventually killed by Hagen

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Adults could fatally overdose if they took a two-week supply at once, said Siegfried Kasper, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

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Siegfried Merzbacher, it seems, had received a well-timed job transfer just as the persecution of Jews in Germany was reaching a crescendo.

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In fact, he recently opened the writers’ room on his next project, an Apple TV+ limited series about Las Vegas showman Siegfried & Roy, which is based on the Apple original podcast “Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy.”

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“This was a big gift, that I don’t have to do crazy things but only the things that fit to my character,” said tenor Klaus Florian Vogt, who sang a robust Siegfried.

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The Germans had pulled back to a heavily fortified position known to the British as the Hindenburg Line and to the Germans as the Siegfried Line.

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