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HILDEBRAND, LAY OF (Deis Hildebrandslied) , a unique example of Old German alliterative poetry, written about the year Boo on the first and last pages of a theological manuscript, by two monks of the monastery of Fulda. The fragment, or rather fragments, only extend to sixty-eight lines, and the conclusion of the poem is wanting. The theory propounded by Karl Lachmann, that the poem had been written in its present form from memory, has been discredited by later philological investigation; it is clearly a transcript of an older original
which the copyistsor more probably the writer to whom we owe the older versionimperfectly understood. The language of the poem shows a curious mixture of Low and High German forms; as the High German elements point to the dialect of Fulda, the inference is that the copyists were reproducing an originally Low German lay in the form in which it was sung in Franconia. The fragment is mainly taken up with a dialogue between Hildebrand and his son Hadubrand. When Hildebrand followed his master, Theodoric the Great
young
home , after thirty years' absence among the Huns, he is met by a young
sharp
The MS. of the Hildebrandslied, originally in Fulda, is now pre-served in the Landesbibliothek at Cassel. The literature on the poem will be found most conveniently in K. Mullenhoff and W. Scherer, Denkmdler deutscher Poesie and Prosa aus dem VIII. bis XI. Jahrh., 3rd ed. (1892), and in W. Beaune, Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, 5th ed. (1902), to which authorities the reader is referred for a critical text. The poem was discovered and first printed (as prose
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