nibelungs

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nibelungs - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nibelungs \Ni"be*lungs\, n. pl.; sing. Nibelung.
     In German mythology, the children of the mist, a race of
     dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the
     famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian
     kings in the Nibelungenlied.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]