Alberich
Sign in to savethumb|Alberich seduces the king's mother (a scene from Ortnit, 1480 woodcut) thumb|Alberich (with whip) drives on the Nibelung dwarfs, who collect gold and other treasures. ([[Arthur Rackham, 1910)]] thumb|Sigurd|Siegfried wrestles with Alberich ([[Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1843)]] In German heroic legend, Alberich () is a dwarf. He features most prominently in the poems Nibelungenlied and Ortnit. He also features in the Old Norse collection of German legends called the Thidreksaga under the name Alfrikr. His name consists of the elements alb ("elf") and ric "power" or "ruler". It is equi
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- Part of
- Norse mythology
- Gender
- male
- Said to be same as
- Oberon
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- Notes
- References
thumb|Alberich seduces the king's mother (a scene from Ortnit, 1480 woodcut) thumb|Alberich (with whip) drives on the Nibelung dwarfs, who collect gold and other treasures. ([[Arthur Rackham, 1910)]] thumb|Sigurd|Siegfried wrestles with Alberich ([[Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1843)]] In German heroic legend, Alberich () is a dwarf. He features most prominently in the poems Nibelungenlied and Ortnit. He also features in the Old Norse collection of German legends called the Thidreksaga under the name Alfrikr. His name consists of the elements alb ("elf") and ric "power" or "ruler". It is equivalent to the Old French Alberon or Auberon, from which the English Oberon is derived, and is the source of the Norman French derivation Aubry.
The name was later used for a character in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alberich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.