river-dwarf

Updated: May 6, 2025

On this point, therefore, the German preserves the older tradition: the Norse Andvari, the river-dwarf, is the German Alberich the Nibelung. In the Nibelungen Lied the winning of the treasure forms no part of the action: it is merely narrated by Hagen.

L. Winifred Faraday - The Edda, Volume 2: The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology,: Romance, and Folklore, No. 13