| In spite of repeated disappointments, however, Mime the Nibelung works on. |
| He uses it to set up a dictatorship over the Nibelung dwarves, who become his slaves, mining ceaselessly for more gold. |
| Hagen told Gunther how Siegfried won treasure from the Nibelungs, two brothers and mighty princes named Schilbung and Nibelung. |
| Taking the Nibelung ring from his finger, he put it upon hers. |
| And of late I have heard that the Nibelung has bought him a wife. |
| The second concerns the Nibelung myth, which relates the story of the Germanic hero Siegfried. |
