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.
Alliterative verse
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In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most comm
The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse.
The replicas of the Golden Horns of Gallehus exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark