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Hildebrandslied ✠ [Modern German folk song][+ english translation] This is a modern High German version from the band Transit, of this old legend. The real Hildebrandslied is in Old High German. The …More
Hildebrandslied ✠ [Modern German folk song][+ english translation]
This is a modern High German version from the band Transit, of this old legend. The real Hildebrandslied is in Old High German. The Hildebrandslied (Lay or Song of Hildebrand) is a heroic lay written in Old High German alliterative verse. It is the earliest poetic text in German, and it tells of the tragic encounter in battle between a father (Hildebrand) and a son (Hadubrand) who does not recognize him. It is the only surviving example in German of a genre which must have been important in the oral literature of the Germanic tribes. The text was written in the 830s on two spare leaves on the outside of a religious codex in the monastery of Fulda. The two scribes were copying from an unknown older original, which itself must ultimately have derived from oral tradition. The story of Hildebrand and Hadubrand almost certainly goes back to 7th or 8th century Lombardy and is set against the background of the legendary conflict …More