The original Hildebrandslied - The Lay (or poem) of Hildebrand - read aloud in the original Old High German. It is a great early mediaeval tragedy - very short, though: not a tragedy in the sense of some full Shakespearean-size play. It reminds you of the scene in The Empire Strikes Back where Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were fighting, and Vader says, "Luke, I am your father."
If you would like to read a line-by-line, annotated translation, go to my site www.linguexperience.com.
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