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Balmung

American  
[bahl-moong] / ˈbɑl mʊŋ /
Also Balmunc

noun

  1. (in theNibelungenlied ) a sword seized from the Nibelungs by Siegfried.


Balmung British  
/ ˈbælmʊŋ, ˈbælmʊŋk /

noun

  1. (in the Nibelungenlied ) Siegfried's sword

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Then came the bonus question: “Bucephalus and Roan Barbary were steeds. For 20 points, what were Balmung and Durendal?”

From Washington Post Jun. 8, 2019

“Bucephalus and Roan Barbary were steeds. For 20 points, what were Balmung and Durendal?”

From Slate Aug. 6, 2018

It was his own Balmung, that had been lost so long.

From The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin

The muscles on his short, brawny arms, stood out like great ropes; and then Balmung, descending, cleft the air from right to left.

From The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin

And Siegfried forgot not his trusty sword Balmung, nor his cloak of darkness the priceless Tarnkappe, which he had captured from the dwarf Alberich in the Nibelungen Land.

From The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin

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