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Ni⋅be⋅lung

  [nee-buh-loong]
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–noun, plural -lungs, -lung⋅en. Teutonic Legend.
1. any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
2. the followers of Siegfried.
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Ni·be·lung   (nē'bə-lŏŏng')   
n.   Mythology

  1. Any of a race of subterranean dwarfs whose hoard of riches and magic ring were taken from them by Siegfried.

  2. A follower of Siegfried.

  3. One of the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.


[German, from Middle High German Nibelunc, from Old High German Nibulunc, Nibilung.]
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