Song of Hildebrand

The song of Hildebrand ( Das Hildebrandslied ), is a single example of the old woman German alliterative poetry, written on the first and the sixty-sixteenth page of a theological manuscript by two monks of the monastery of Fulda. It also appears in two Scandinavian versions: the first in Gesta Danorum (Hildiger) and the second in the kappabana of saga of Ásmundar .

The text of the Hildebrandslied was in particular studied by the philologist Karl Lachmann at the beginning of the XIXe century.

The fragment is mainly taken with a dialog between Hildebrand and its son Hadubrand . When Hildebrand follows its Master, Théodoric Large the, which is run away towards the east before Odoacer, it leaves his young wife and an infantile child behind him. Of return to the house, after thirty years of absence among the huns , it meets a young warrior who defies it to choose the combat. Before starting to fight, Hildebrand wants to know the name of its adversary and realizes owing to the fact that it is about his own son. It tries to avoid the combat, obviously, but in vain; Hadubrand takes the words of the old man for the excuse of his cowardice. Into showers of sharp, the ashy lances fall on the shields, the warriors seize their swords and cut vigorously with the white shields until those are beaten of pieces. With these words the fragment stops abruptly, not giving any index as for the question of the combat.

Weblinks

Wikisource Hildebrandslied
http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~hab/arnd/
http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/rezensio/liste/Graf3110177307_868.html

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