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Current Date: May 22 2013 20:34:45 MVT (DST not in effect)
Heathen Date: Odin's day, Merrymoon 22, 2263 RE

Pagan Calendar - Heathen Calendar

Sigurd`s Day
Summary	Sigurd`s Day
Calendar	Heathen
Date	Apr 23 Every year
Description	Sigurd`s Day 23 April Sigur�r, German: Siegfried) was a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the V�lsunga saga. The earliest extant representations for his legend come in pictoral form from seven runestones in Sweden and most notably the Ramsund carving (c. 1000) and the G�k Runestone (11th century). As Siegfried, he is the hero in the German Nibelungenlied, and Richard Wagner's operas Siegfried and G�tterd�mmerung. The name Sigur�r is an Icelandic or Norwegian corruption of the German Siegfried as the correct Old Norse would have been Sigru�r (Sigr�d), a form which appears in the Ramsund carving that depicts the legend.
References	http://www.odinistfellowship.co.uk

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