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Nibelungs

Variant of Nibelung

noun pl. Nibelungs, Nibelungen

Gmc. Legend
1. any of a race of dwarfs who owned a magic ring and a hoard of gold, which Siegfried took from them
2. any of Siegfried's followers
in the Nibelungenlied, any of the Burgundian kings

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