Hildebrandslied

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title: Hildebrandslied
text: The Hildebrandslied 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.
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description: Old High German poem
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date created: 2005-02-06T11:20:02Z
date modified: 2024-08-29T17:57:08Z
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