Oberon is the English transliteration of the French Auberon in the romance of Huon of Bordeaux, and Auberon is probably merely the French counterpart of Alberich or Albrich, a dwarf occurring in the German nibelungenlied and other works.
"The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'"
Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
Deep indeed must culture have sunk at the courts of Germany when princes and nobles could take pleasure in such fustian while they possessed the stories of the great epics, the nibelungenlied, the Gudrunlied, and the delicate lyrics of Walther von der Vogelweide.
"Wagner's Tristan und Isolde"
George Ainslie Hight
In the tale of the Volsungs Svanhild was the daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun,-the Siegfried and Kriemhild of nibelungenlied.
"Love's Comedy"
Henrik Ibsen