Nibelung

[ nee-buh-loong ]

noun,plural Ni·be·lungs, Ni·be·lung·en.Teutonic Legend.
  1. any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.

  2. the followers of Siegfried.

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How to use Nibelung in a sentence

  • All round Worms, place-names connected with the Nibelung tale occur with remarkable (p. 035) frequency.

  • "We will go to welcome the fleet," said Brunhild, and together they met the brave Nibelung army and lodged them in Isenland.

  • The divine hero Siegfried, who first obtained it and thus became a Nibelung, left to his race the claim to the treasure.

    Life of Wagner | Louis Nohl
  • Sigurd took the cup out of the hands of the fair Nibelung maiden and he drank the potion.

    The Children of Odin | Padraic Colum
  • In 1876 the theatre was finished, and that colossal work, the Ring of the Nibelung, was brought forward and put upon the stage.

British Dictionary definitions for Nibelung

Nibelung

/ (ˈniːbəˌlʊŋ) /


nounplural -lungs or -lungen (-ˌlʊŋən) German myth
  1. any of the race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard stolen by Siegfried

  2. one of Siegfried's companions or followers

  1. (in the Nibelungenlied) a member of the family of Gunther, king of Burgundy

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