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  • The villain Hagen, son of the Niebelung Alberich, limply allowed himself to be dragged into the well behind the apron by the Rhinemaidens.

    And So the World Ended Heidi Waleson 2012

  • One man with a round, fair head lifted his face and one arm from the water and shouted a greeting to us, as if he were a Niebelung, saluting with bright arm lifted from the water, his face laughing, the fair moustache hanging over his mouth.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • I am quite sure there never was a nation so ridiculously sodden as our own just at present; all of our maxims and ways of life are as if we were the queer little Niebelung creatures that dig for treasure in the bowels of the earth, and see no farther than the ends of their shovels; we live in the City of God, and spend all our time scraping the gold of the pavements.

    King Midas: a Romance Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Thus alone can the ring of the Niebelung and the ring of the gods be dissolved.

    Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship 1910

  • One man with a round, fair head lifted his face and one arm from the water and shouted a greeting to us, as if he were a Niebelung, saluting with bright arm lifted from the water, his face laughing, the fair moustache hanging over his mouth.

    Twilight in Italy 1907

  • These works are ultimately derivative of Wagner's Ring of the Niebelung opera cycle, perhaps the most influential dramatic work of the nineteenth century.

    Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010

  • These works are ultimately derivative of Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelung opera cycle, perhaps the most influential dramatic work of the nineteenth century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ongoing Debate Over Jewish Fantasy Literature 2010

  • These works are ultimately derivative of Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelung opera cycle, perhaps the most influential dramatic work of the nineteenth century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ongoing Debate Over Jewish Fantasy Literature 2010

  • These works are ultimately derivative of Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelung opera cycle, perhaps the most influential dramatic work of the nineteenth century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ongoing Debate Over Jewish Fantasy Literature 2010

  • These works are ultimately derivative of Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelung opera cycle, perhaps the most influential dramatic work of the nineteenth century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ongoing Debate Over Jewish Fantasy Literature 2010

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