Show historian sees symbol in song of Nice Nibe lungs A strange theory according to which the famous song of the Nibe lungs is partly it a symbolic description of processes lias bag been published hy by the german ani ludnie antz while ifera antz does not deny tant some ot of III llie e personal personalities atles and motives of 0 the song may have a historical background his thesis Is that tat the poet of the Nibe lungs sed old fairy tales and myths as a garment the life of siegfried nerr antz contends cor tends Is full of such indications in his opinion it if 14 highly remarkable that metals have been wined mined in the territory around the lie city of worms the sent scat of the Nibe lungs for several thousand years sieg frieds feht against the dragon Is explained as a symbolic interpretation of mining brunhilde who lived in brittany not in iceland Is described as the queen of tin and siegfried conquers her or gunther the king of copper gunther copper barries brunhilde tin and the result Is bronac at AI berich the dwarf Is a miner who reveals the secret of mining to siegfried |