2) Ring of the Nibelung. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Ring of the Nibelung (NEE-buh-loong) A series of four operas by Richard Wagner, based on stories from Norse mythology; the central story is that of Siegfried and...

3) Theod'orick. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...One of the heroes of the Nibelung, a legend of the Sagas. This king of the Goths was also selected as the centre of a set of champions by the German minnesangers...

4) Wishing-rod (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...of the Nibelungs was of pure gold. Whoever had it could keep the whole world in subjection. It belonged to Siegfried, but when the "Nibelung hoard" was removed to...

5) Wagner, Richard. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...operas, many of which dramatize myths and legends. The four-opera group The Ring of the Nibelung and the single opera Tristan und Isolde are among his best-known...

6) Nibelungers. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Whoever possessed the "Nibelungen hoard" (q.v.). Thus at one time certain people of Norway were so called, but when Siegfried possessed himself of the hoard he was...

7) Hagan of Trony. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...and suppose that he had been murdered by assassins. When Kriemhild sent to Worms for the "Nibelung Hoard," Hagan seized it, and buried it secretly somewhere beneath...

8) Nibelungen. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Nibelungen, (ne´bloong´n) (KEY) or Nibelungs, in Germanic myth and literature, an evil family possessing a magic hoard of gold. The hoard is accursed. The Nibelungenlied...

9) Il'iad (3 syl.). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...and the original poem ends. Meung added 18,000 lines as a sequel. 5 The German Iliad. The Nibelungenlied, put into its present form in 1210 by a wandering minstrel...

10) Roosevelt, Theodore. 1913. History as Literature: X. The Ancient Irish Sagas
...merit and interest, in antiquity and extent—"Beowulf," the Norse sagas, the "Kalevala," the "Nibelungenlied," the "Song of Roland," the Arthurian cycle of romances....