entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status ENT_GSAGA_BRYNHILD,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,Shieldmaiden/valkyrie betrothed to Sigurd; her betrayal via the Gjukungs drives the tragedy. Nibelungenlied's Brünhild.,SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_FAFNIR,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,Dwarf-turned-dragon who guards the cursed gold of Andvari; slain by Sigurd. Brother of Reginn.,SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_GUDRUN,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Gjukung princess, wife of Sigurd; her grief and revenge drive the cycle's later tragedies. Nibelungenlied's Kriemhild.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_GUNNAR,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Gjukung king, brother of Gudrun, who wins Brynhild through deceit and conspires in Sigurd's death. Nibelungenlied's Gunther.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_HERVOR,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,Shieldmaiden who claims the cursed sword Tyrfing from her father's barrow; central to Hervarar saga.,SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_HOGNI,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Gjukung brother of Gunnar and Gudrun, party to Sigurd's killing; dies defiantly in the hall of Atli. Nibelungenlied's Hagen.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_RAGNARR,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Legendary Viking king and serpent-slayer; subject of Ragnars saga lodbrokar, loosely linked to the Volsung material through his wife Aslaug, daughter of Sigurd and Brynhild.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_REGINN,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,Smith and foster-father of Sigurd who reforges the sword Gram and incites the slaying of his brother Fafnir; later slain by Sigurd.,SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_SIGMUND,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Son of Volsung, wielder of the sword drawn from Barnstokkr; father of Sigurd. Twin of Signy.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_SIGNY,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Daughter of Volsung, twin of Sigmund; engineers vengeance against Siggeir for the slaughter of her kin.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_SIGURD,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"The dragon-slayer (Old High German Siegfried), central hero of Volsunga saga who slays Fafnir and wins the cursed Andvari hoard; son of Sigmund. Sigurðr Fáfnisbani = Nibelungenlied's Siegfried.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_STARKADR,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,Multi-generational warrior-hero blessed and cursed by the gods; prominent in Saxo's Gesta Danorum and Gautreks saga.,SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_VOLSUNG,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Eponymous king and ancestor of the Volsung line, descendant of Odin; father of Sigmund and Signy.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_VOLSUNG_CYCLE,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Organizing hub for the Volsung/Nibelung legendary cycle, attested across Volsunga saga, the Poetic Edda heroic lays, and the Nibelungenlied.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed ENT_GSAGA_VOLUNDR,PER_GERMANIC_SAGA,high,"Legendary master smith (Old English Weland, German Wieland); his captivity and vengeance are told in the eddic Volundarkvida and Old English Deor/Franks Casket. Volundr = Old English Weland/Wayland = German Wieland; cross-attested beyond Byock in the Poetic Edda.",SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS,reviewed