Alberich

Alberich is in Germanic mythology, the king of the same name elf or dwarf Tight Schlecht, corresponding to the Nordic Andwari.

In the parent saga of the Merovingian he gave his elder son Walbert the hand of the princess of Constantinople. By dating from the 14th century legend of Huon de Bordeaux Alberich is as Auberon, finally, as Oberon, included among the legends of King Arthur, where he gained widespread use as Fairy King. In addition, he is also called in the Middle High German epic Ortnit.

In the Nibelungenlied, Alberich guards the Nibelung hoard. By means of a magic hat (actually a coat) he can make himself invisible; Siegfried can give him but the stealth steal and thus reaches the treasure of the Nibelungs.

Of these varied literary figures exist, the most famous in Richard Wagner's Nibelungen tetralogy ( The Ring of the Nibelung ), where Alberich a tyrannical dwarf king from the House of Black albums, the Nibelungen embodies.

The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line in World War I was provided with the name of " business Alberich ". Under the code name " Alberich " experiments with U 480 for acoustic stealth submarines were made after 1943. (Rubber coating to absorb underwater locating signals )