The English translation of the German caption reads: “Hildebrandslied from the handwritten manuscript dating to 8th-9th century. [Housed} in in the Landesbibliothek [Library] in Kassel [Germany].” The Hildebrandslied (Song of Hildebrand)) is the earliest poetic text in German. It tells of the tragic encounter in battle between a father (Hildebrand) and a son (Hadubrand) who does not recognize him. The text was written in the 830s on two spare leaves on the outside of a religious codex in the monastery of Fulda. The story is set against the background of the historical conflict between Theodor
The English translation of the German caption reads: “Hildebrandslied from the handwritten manuscript dating to 8th-9th century. [Housed} in in the Landesbibliothek [Library] in Kassel [Germany].” The Hildebrandslied (Song of Hildebrand)) is the earliest poetic text in German. It tells of the tragic encounter in battle between a father (Hildebrand) and a son (Hadubrand) who does not recognize him. The text was written in the 830s on two spare leaves on the outside of a religious codex in the monastery of Fulda. The story is set against the background of the historical conflict between Theodoric and Odoacer in 5th-century Italy, which became a major subject for Germanic heroic legend.
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