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Updated: June 5, 2025
On this quest therefore the two gods descended through a cleft in the earth to Nibelheim, the abode of the Nibelungs. There they find Alberich, by virtue of his magic gold, lording it over his fellow-dwarfs.
Below the Rhine lay Nibelheim, the kingdom of mists and night, the home of the Nibelungs, dark gnomes, dwarfs, living in the bowels of the earth, digging its metals, excelling in cunning as smiths.
The two little Nibelungs were princes, the giants were their counsellors. Now the King of the Nibelungs had but just died in the dark little underground town of Nibelheim, and the two tiny princes were the sons of the dead king. But they had not come to the mountain-side to mourn for their royal father.
But Alberich seems to remember too many reasons for distrusting him. "I can now, however," he boasts, "defy you all!" and he calls to their notice the heaped riches, the Hort. "But," remarks Wotan, "of what use is all that wealth in cheerless Nibelheim, where there is nothing to buy?" "Nibelheim," replies Alberich, "is good to furnish treasures and to keep them safe.
All the livelong day they would hammer on their little anvils, but all through the long night they would dance and play with tiny little Nibelung women. It was not in the little dark town of Nibelheim that Mimer had his forge, but under the trees of the great forest to which Siegfried had been sent.
Tearing from its socket their splendid lamp, which utters just once its golden cry, all distorted and lamentable, he plunges with it into the depths, leaving sudden night over the scene in which the wild sisters, shocked at last into sobriety, with cries of Help and Woe start in pursuit of the robber. His harsh laugh of triumph drifts back from the caves of Nibelheim.
The instrumentation of the "Rhinegold" is going on apace. At present I am with the orchestra down in "Nibelheim." In May the whole will be ready, but not the clean copy, only single sheets with illegible pencil sketches on them. It will be some time before you can see anything of it. In June I have to begin the "Valkyrie." When are you coming?
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