A member of a supernatural underground race that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.
Origin
From German Nibelung, singular form corresponding to plural Nibelungen; from Old High German nibel ("mist") + patronymic ending -ung, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz + *-ungÅ.
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