18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

[cahn]

More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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Re: Hildebrandslied

[mildred_of_midgard]

I can give you that too! It's called the Jüngeres Hildebrandslied, it's also short, and it exists because the medievals agreed with you. Or as Wikipedia says, "Even though some of the later medieval versions end in reconciliation, this can be seen as a concession to the more sentimental tastes of a later period." :P

Also according to Wikipedia,

The textual form of the Jüngeres Hildebrandslied is a product of the fifteenth century, though its material is clearly much older...It is transmitted in five manuscripts, beginning with a fragment from 1459, with the first complete version found in the Dresdener Heldenbuch. The poem was printed numerous times beginning in the sixteenth century, and continued to be printed into the eighteenth century. The ballad even ended up in the collection of German folk poetry known as Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805). The poem and the melody to which it was sung were both extremely well known throughout this period.

I think that answers our question of how Hagendorf knew about it, and tells us which version of the story he'd probably heard (the fix-it fic version)!