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    The Hildebrandslied (German: [ˈhɪldəbʁantsˌliːt]; Lay or Song of Hildebrand) is a heroic lay written in Old High German alliterative verse. It is the...
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    Hildebrand appears in many works, most prominently in the Old High German Hildebrandslied, the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, in the Old Norse song "Hildebrand's...
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    English poems Widsith, Deor, and Waldere, the Old High German poem Hildebrandslied, and possibly the Rök runestone. The bulk of the legendary material...
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    this period. The author of the Jüngeres Hildebrandslied obviously did not know the text of the 800s Hildebrandslied; the ballad is rather the result of a...
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    century, chief among them being the Muspilli, Merseburg charms, and Hildebrandslied, and other religious texts (the Georgslied, Ludwigslied, Evangelienbuch...
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    survivals we have today (less than 200 lines in total between the Hildebrandslied and the Muspilli). Einhard tells how Charlemagne himself ordered that...
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    run until about the mid-11th century; the most famous works are the Hildebrandslied and a heroic epic known as the Heliand. Middle High German starts in...
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    great kingdom in Italy for Theodoric to exploit. The Old High German Hildebrandslied mentions Odoacer (as Otacher) as the person who drove Hildebrand from...
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    tradition. The ballad the Jüngeres Hildebrandslied (c. 1450) concerns the same material as the early medieval Hildebrandslied. Finally, a number of heroic texts...
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    glosses (Abrogans) date to the 8th and the oldest coherent texts (the Hildebrandslied, the Muspilli and the Merseburg Incantations) to the 9th century. Middle...
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    their sons in combat ("Rostam and Sohrab", a motif also found in the Hildebrandslied), are virtually invincible in combat, and are murdered by treachery...
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    his brother. In 1812 they published the two ancient fragments of the Hildebrandslied and the Weißenbrunner Gebet, Jacob having discovered what until then...
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    duel, a bejewelled memento, and the lost horse. Aided Óenfhir Aífe Hildebrandslied Ebrahimi, Mokhtar & Taheri, Abdollah. (2017). The Tragedy in the Story...
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    Cycle, with Cú Chulainn fighting many duels. In the Old High German Hildebrandslied, champion warfare between a father and his son are the main theme....
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    (featured on the album "REBOOT"; 2018) U96 feat. Wolfgang Flür – "Hildebrandslied" (featured on the album "REBOOT"; 2018) Anni Hogan feat. Wolfgang Flür...
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    Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript (830s): the text reads ƿiges ƿarne....
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    bill is used. Heliand (v. 4882) has billes biti "sword-bite". The Hildebrandslied has a parallelism establishing bill and suert as synonyms (v. 53f....
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    Germanic hero Hildebrant inadvertently kills his son Hadubrant in the Hildebrandslied; and the Iranian Rostam unknowingly confronts his son Sohrab in the...
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    digitized. The two most impressive items of the collection are the Hildebrandslied (from c. 830) and the proof copy of the Children's and Household Tales...
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    and the manner of their deaths. Another similar myth is found in the Hildebrandslied, in which Hildebrand is thought to kill his son, Hadubrand, though...
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  • three centuries after the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, or the Hildebrandslied, written at Fulda 300 years after the Christianization of the Franks...
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    Etzel against his usurping uncle, Ermenrich. Only the Old High German Hildebrandslied still contains Odoacer (Old High German: Otacher) as Dietrich's antagonist...
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  • documented use of "degano" as a substantive is observed in the epic poem "Hildebrandslied" of langobardic origin, written in Old High German with Old Saxon elements...
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  • karolingischen Zeit (Straßburg, K. Trübner, 1912) Wettu Irmingot und das Hildebrandslied (ZfdA 58 (1921) S. 141–151) Christoph König (Hrsg.), unter Mitarbeit...
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  • for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex". March 2005. Opritsa D. Popa. Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the...
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    Opritsa D. (2003). Bibliophiles and bibliothieves : the search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex. Berlin: de Gruyter. p. 12. ISBN 3-11-017730-7...
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  • fourteenth century. It is essentially an adaptation of the German Hildebrandslied, but it has assimilated matter from the Tyrfing Cycle. The saga relates...
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  • sequence of episodes into a longer narrative. Old High German The Hildebrandslied Old Norse Atlakviða Hamðismál Old English The Finnesburg Fragment Hatto...
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    (1827) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1833); in the papers "Über das Hildebrandslied," "Über althochdeutsche Betonung und Verskunst," "Über den Eingang...
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    Fewer than 200 Old High German lines survive, in four works: the Hildebrandslied, Muspilli, the Merseburg Charms and the Wessobrunn Prayer. All four...
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