Nibelung
Americannoun
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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
In The Perfect Wagnerite, his anticapitalist reading of The Ring of the Nibelung cycle, Shaw wrote that the descent into Nibelheim, the realm of the enslaved dwarves, is “frightfully real, frightfully present, frightfully modern”.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2020
The setting is supposed to show the forest dwelling where Mime, the Nibelung dwarf, has raised the orphaned Siegfried into brawny young manhood.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013
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
Kriemhilde inquires whether they had brought her property, the Nibelung treasure, with them.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
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
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
Google Wagner and you're more likely to come across the disturbed Brazilian who can't sing rather than the deranged anti-semite behind Der Ring des Nibelungen.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2010
It also occurs as a person in the Nibelungen Lied as Högni, Hagen, ‘the thorn who kills Siegfried.’
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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
The moment of his overtaking the Nibelungs is indicated by their sudden distant outcry.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
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