Volsung

Signy was the daughter of Volsung and the sister of Sigmund.

Her husband slew Volsung by treachery and captured his sons.

Kaufmann brought to Don Alvaro the lonely longing of the outcast Volsung Siegmund, from Wagner’s “Die Walküre,” recognizable here in the guise of Verdi’s Incan wanderer, far from Peru, denounced as a savage in Europe, searching far and wide for the woman who loves him but will always be forbidden to him.

Hagen, the leader of the underworld Gibichung clan that is at war with the gods and the Volsung race of heroes, was played by South Korean bass baritone Attila Jun sporting a Mohawk haircut as a nightclub-style bouncer who stopped in periodically at a voodoo shrine behind a metal gate to spit on images of his enemies.

Volsungs, vol′sungz, n.pl. a famous heroic race in old German legend, its founder Volsung or Wolsung, the grandson of Odin, and its brightest ornament Volsung's son, Siegmund.