- KING NIBELUNG
- king of the NIBELUNGEN (q.v.), who left his two sons an inexhaustible hoard of wealth, so large that 12 waggons in 12 days at the rate of 3 journeys a day could not carry it off.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
KING NIBELUNG
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