form
them into a complete story.

F. A. Wolf, in 1795, wrote a learned book to prove that Homer did for
the _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_ what Ofterdingen did for the _Nibelungen
Lied_.

Richard Wagner composed a series of operas founded on the Nibelungen
Lied.

=Nibelungen N[^o]t=, the second part of the _Nibelungen Lied_,
containing the marriage of Kriemhild with Etzel, the visit of the
Burgundians to the court of the Hun, and the death of G[:u]nther, Hagan,
Kriemhild, and others. This part contains eighty-three four-line stanzas
more than the first part. The number of lines in the two parts is 9836;
so that the poem is almost as long as Milton's _Paradise Lost_.

=Nibelungers=, whoever possessed the Nibelungen hoard. When it was in
Norway, the Norwegians were so called: when Siegfried [_Sege.freed_] got
the possession of it, the Netherlanders were so called; and when the
hoard was removed to Burgundy, the Burgundians were the Nibelungers.

=Nic. Frog=, the Dutch as a nation; as the English are called John
Bull.--Dr. Arbuthnot, _History of John Bull_ (1712).

=Nica'nor=, "the Protospathaire," a Greek general.--Sir W. Scott, _Count
Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).

=Nice= (_Sir Courtley_), the chief character and title of a drama by
Croune (1685).

=Nicholas=, a poor scholar, who boarded with John, a rich old miserly
carpenter. The poor scholar fell in love with Alison, his landlord's
young wife, who joined him in duping the foolish old carpenter. Nicholas
told John that such a rain would fall on the ensuing Monday as would
drown every one in "less than an hour;" and he persuaded the old fool to
provide three large tubs, one for himself, one for his wife, and the
other for his lodger. In these tubs, said Nicholas, they would be saved;
and when the flood abated, they would then be lords and masters of the
whole earth. A few hours before the time of the "flood," the old
carpenter went to the top chamber of his house to repeat his _pater
nosters_. He fell asleep over his prayers, and was roused by the cry of
"Water! water! Help! help!" Supposing the rain had come, he jumped into
his tub, and was let down by Nicholas and Alison into the street. A
crowd soon assembled, were delighted at the joke, and pronounced the old
man an idiot and fool.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Miller's
Tale," 1388).

_Nicholas_, the barber of the village in which Don Quixote
lived.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. (1605).

_Nic