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
It was no hardship then to Siegfried to leave the forge and the hated little Nibelung, therefore it was that with right good-will he set out in search of charcoal for Mimer the blacksmith.
From Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children by Granville Fell
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
Wagner knew nothing of the search for dark matter and eerie bosons when he wrote Der Ring des Nibelungen.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2012
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
This danger Wagner skilfully avoided in his later music-dramas derived from the Nibelungen myth.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
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
Later, it did duty as a lower level of Nibelheim, where Alberich enslaves his fellow Nibelungs as the first step in his quest for world domination.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 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
She would have him belong to the Nibelungs, not only by the oaths of brotherhood he had sworn with Gunnar and Högni, but by other ties.
From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Willy Pogany
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