THE GENESIS OF THE LEGEND BY ISTIN AND LEMERCIER. The Nibelungen underworld is torture? by numerous feudal wars. Alberic, the king of the worlds below, attracts? with the song of gold, leaves for the Land of Men. He forged some from this celestial gold? a ring. A ring with power so great, that it is capable of bending anything or anyone that has it? his will?. Whoever possesses it acquires almighty power... Wotan, the Father of the Gods, wishes to seize it in order to deliberate the goddess Idunn, guardian of the apples of immortality. But be careful? the curse...