It was forged by Weyland the Smith and originally belonged to his father , Sigmund , who received it in the hall of the Volsung after pulling it out of a log into which Odin had stuck it -- nobody else could pull it out . It was forged by Wayland the Smith and originally belonged to his father , Sigmund , who received it in the hall of the Volsung after pulling it out of the tree Barnstokk into which Odin had stuck itâ '' no-one else could pull it out .