Volsungs

Volsungs, a famous heroic race in old German legend, its founder Volsung or Walsung, the grandson of Odin, and its brightest ornament Volsung's son, Siegmund. Sigfried or Sigurd, hero of the Nibelungenlied (q.v.), is of the same stock. The tale is enshrined in the Old Icelandic Volsunga-saga, which has been followed by W. Morris in his Story of Sigurd the Volsung.