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Updated: May 15, 2025
For "witchcraft", the horror of heathens, hanging was the penalty. "Private revenge" sometimes deliberately inflicts a cruel death for atrocious wrong or insult, as when a king, enraged at the slaying of his son and seduction of his daughter, has the offender hanged, an instance famous in Nathan's story, so that Hagbard's hanging and hempen necklace were proverbial.
Sigar in vengeance had him strangled on a hill in view of Signy's windows, and she set fire to her house that she might die simultaneously with her lover. The antiquity of part at least of this story is proved by the kenning "Hagbard's collar" for halter, in a poem probably of the tenth century.
It seems possible that Hagbard's story has been contaminated with a distorted account of the Volsung Signy, civilised as usual by Saxo, with an effect of vulgarity absent from the primitive story. In a recently published pamphlet by Mr. W.W. Lawrence and Dr. Evidence from metre and form is all in favour of this view, and the poem bears the interpretation without any straining of the meaning. Dr.
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