Nibelung
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Nibelungs,
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Nibelungen
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any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
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the followers of Siegfried.
noun
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any of the race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard stolen by Siegfried
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one of Siegfried's companions or followers
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(in the Nibelungenlied ) a member of the family of Gunther, king of Burgundy
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“Exploring nature. Enjoying home!” gushes one Facebook post above a photo of a musclebound guy on a mountaintop wearing Resistend-branded sportswear, one of the Nibelung tournament’s sponsors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Words, concepts and images that pervade his work have become commonplace signifiers in contemporary discourse: Valhalla, Liebestod, Valkyrie, Gesamtkunstwerk, Flying Dutchman, Nibelung, Brünnhilde, Götterdämmerung, Siegfried, Leitmotiv, endless melody, to name just a few.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
For hours on end, artists come and go from stage left or right; sometimes they enter through a small door or stand in a trough which makes even a god look like a little Nibelung.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 31, 2012
The four-part "Ring of the Nibelung" is part of a campaign by the Met to tap contemporary filmmakers and theater directors to stage new operas or overhaul classics to become more relevant to modern tastes.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2010
If for the dog the world is a smell, for the eagle a picture, for the politician a Nibelung hoard, then for the psychiatrist life is a huge, throbbing nerve.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
As the war turned against Germany, Kruger’s Hitler Youth unit was drafted into the newly formed SS division "Nibelungen."
From Fox News ● Jan. 20, 2022
Der Ring des Nibelungen – directed by Richard Jones, Royal Opera, London, 1994-96 Roger Scruton described Jones’s interpretation of opera’s most imposing work as a “desecration”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2015
Richard Wagner created a cycle of four musical dramas called Der Ring des Nibelungen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi, who has already substituted for Levine this season, will conduct the cycles of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen this coming April and May.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2011
The Titanic imagination of the "Nibelungen" and the tremendous imagery of "Beowulf" were both the inevitable expression of the tumultuous soul of the Teuton, conscious of a great destiny.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Among many other things, the opera is a study in inequality, the Nibelungs living in a dank underworld.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
The German domestic intelligence agency previously said the group had also set up Germany's biggest far-right martial arts event, called Fight of the Nibelungs, which has been banned since 2019.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023
Famous tales that eventually found their way into written form, such as the Song of Hildebrand and the Song of the Nibelungs, had their beginnings as spoken epics.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The Battle of the Nibelungs is a “central point of contact” for right-wing extremists, according to German government intelligence reports.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Then she went to Högni and asked him to slay Sigurd, telling him that the whole of Fafnir's hoard would belong to the Nibelungs if Sigurd were slain.
From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Willy Pogany
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