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Sinfjötli
Sign in to savethumb|"Odin takes the corpse of Sinfjötli" (1883) by Johannes Gehrts. thumb|right|Odin taking the dead Sinfjǫtli to [[Valhalla]] Sinfjötli ( ) or Fitela (in Old English) in Norse mythology was born out of the incestuous relationship between Sigmund and his sister Signy. He had the half-brothers Sigurd, Helgi Hundingsbane and Hamund.
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thumb|"Odin takes the corpse of Sinfjötli" (1883) by Johannes Gehrts. thumb|right|Odin taking the dead Sinfjǫtli to [[Valhalla]] Sinfjötli ( ) or Fitela (in Old English) in Norse mythology was born out of the incestuous relationship between Sigmund and his sister Signy. He had the half-brothers Sigurd, Helgi Hundingsbane and Hamund.
==Etymology and orthography== Sinfjǫtli is formed from two parts, sin-, and fjǫtli. The latter is cognate with the Old English Fitela. In the standardized Old Norse orthography, the name is spelled Sinfjǫtli, but the letter 'ǫ' is frequently replaced with the Modern Icelandic ö for reasons of familiarity or technical expediency.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sinfjötli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.