Nibelung
Americannoun
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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 Met's season began on Monday with "Das Rheingold," the first installment of its $15 million, high-tech new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," directed by Quebec theater director Robert Lepage.
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
In this lofty spirit he planned Der Ring des Nibelungen.
From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Caroline French Benton
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
In the meantime, there’s news from the folks at the Battle of the Nibelungs.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
When Siegfried slays the Dragon, when Light overcomes Darkness, this hoard is his booty, and he becomes master of the Nibelungs.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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