Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, sometimes shortened to Wilhelm Jordan, was a German writer and politician.
Portrait of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan
Wilhelm Jordan as a student in Königsberg
Hildebrandslied
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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 and a son w
The first page of the Hildebrandslied manuscript
The second page of the Hildebrandslied manuscript
The text of the Hildebrandslied in Braune's Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, 8th edition, 1921
Grimm's 1830 facsimile of the first page of the Hildebrandslied. Some damage from the use of chemical reagents is already apparent, but much more was to follow.