The Sigurd stones form a group of seven or eight runestones and one image stone that depict imagery from the legend of Sigurd the dragon slayer. They were made during the Viking Age and they constitute the earliest Norse representations of the matter of the Nibelungenlied and the Sigurd legends in the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda and the Völsunga saga.

Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr) is a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Völsunga saga. The earliest extant representations for his legend come in pictorial form from seven runestones in Sweden[1] and most notably the Ramsund carving (c. 1000) and the Gök Runestone (11th century).

As Siegfried, he is the hero in the German Nibelungenlied, and Richard Wagner's operas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.

Sigurd Fafnesbane, eller Sigurd Völsung, är en hjälte i nordisk mytologi, son till Sigmund och Hjördis. Han var gift med Gudrun Gjukedotter, och tillsammans fick de en son. Sigurd förälskade sig sedan i Brynhild och tillsammans med henne fick han dottern Aslög. Legenden om Sigurd ingår i den nordiska Völsungasagan och den tyska motsvarigheten Nibelungenlied, som Richard Wagner baserade Nibelungens ring på.

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