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Nibelungenlied

Definition: Nibelungenlied

Nibelungenlied

Noun

1. An epic poem written in Middle High German and based on the legends of Siegfried and Teutonic kings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Etymology: Nibelungenlied \Ni"be*lung`en*lied`\, noun. [from German expression See Nibelungs; Lied.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: Nibelungenlied

English words defined with "Nibelungenlied": Brunhild, Brunnhilde, Brynhild ♦ Siegfried. (references)

Specialty Definition: Nibelungenlied

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German taking Burgundian kings as its subject matter. It is the work of an anonymous 13th century poet from the Danube area. He re-worked various pagan heroic motifs into a work of courtly poetry.

The word Nibelungen has several meanings, referring to the Burgundian kings portrayed in the poem, and to the followers of Siegfried, and to a legendary race of Germanic dwarfs.

Synopsis

Sigurd proposes to Kriemhild, the beautiful sister of Gunther, Gernot and Giselher, three Burgundian kings. He is allowed to marry her after he defeats Brünhild, the queen of Iceland, with the aid of a cloak which lets him become invisible. Brünhild becomes Gunther's wife.

Kriemhild lets slip the secret in a row with Brünhild, and Hagen decides to kill Sigurd. He finds out his most vulnerable spot and kills him while they are hunting.

Attila the Hun now proposes to Kriemhild, and she invites the Burgundians to a feast in Hungary. There is a huge fight, and everyone is killed except Gunther and Hagen who are captured by Dietrich of Bern.

Kriemhild demands the return of the Nibelungen treasure (stolen by Hagen). When she fails to get it back, she arranges for Gunther to be killed and cuts off Hagen's head with Sigurd's sword. She in turn is killed by Hildebrand, Dietrich's armourer.

The Niebelungenlied served as source material for Wagner's "Ring Cycle" (The Ring of the Nibelung also known as Der Ring des Nibelungen).

External links

An etext can be found at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Nibelungenlied/

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nibelungenlied."

Commercial Usage: Nibelungenlied

Domain	Title
Books	A Preface to the Nibelungenlied (reference) Das Nibelungenlied Vol. 1: Mittelhochdeutscher Text Mit Uebertragung (reference) German Epic Poetry: The Nibelungenlied, the Older Lay of Hildebrand, and Other Works (German Library, Vol 1 (Paper)) (reference) Nibelungenlied (reference) The Nibelungenlied (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Nibelungenlied [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nibelungenlied

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
nibelungenlied	18
das nibelungenlied	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Nibelungenlied

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-n-u"
	-4 letters: ineludible.
	-5 letters: beelining, guideline, indelible, unbending, unbinding.
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Alternative Orthography: Nibelungenlied

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 69 62 65 6C 75 6E 67 65 6E 6C 69 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101001 01100010 01100101 01101100 01110101 01101110 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101100 01101001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 0062 0065 006C 0075 006E 0067 0065 006E 006C 0069 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4875687178878073718078757170

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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