Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... the theme is one of perpetual interest. Were everything that is written, or which lingers in the minds of men, in the form of folk-tale and song suddenly obliterated, actual daily experience would offer enough new instances to cause its reappearance. II Having glanced summarily at the Father and Son Combat theme as it appears in later literature, we may now turn to its presence in purely popular and mediseval romance literature. Considerable attention was first devoted to it in the little book written by the Brothers Grimm, and published in 1812, entitled, 'Die beiden altesten deutschen Gedichte aus dem achten Jahrhundert: Das Lied von Hildebrand und Hadubrand und das Weissenbrunner Gebet.' The authors gave not merely the text and textual criticism, but variants of the Hildebrandslied in German, Norse, and other languages. Later, other parallels were added by Ede'lestand du Meril,1 Orest Miller,2 Reimann,3 Liebrecht,4 Reinhold Kohler,5 and others.6 1 Histoire de la Poisie Scandinave, p. 417. 2 (a) Jlya Murometz and the Heroes of Kiev (Russian), ch. I. (b) Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen, xxxiii. 257. 3 Stengel's Ausgaben und Abhandlungen, iii. 105. 4 Zur Volkskunde, p. 406. 5 Revue Critique, 1868, p. 412, and in Warnke's Lais der Marie de France, p. xcvii, etc. 6 Paris, Revue Critique, 1868, p. 414; Richars li biaus, Foerster, p. xxiii; Busse, Sagengeschichtliches zum Hildebrandsliede: Halle, 1900. As none of these men, with the exception of Miller, have devoted special study to the matter, the lists have necessarily been neither complete nor classified. It was seen from the first that the theme was not to be limited merely to a fight between father and son, but should include other cases where a combat occurred, which...
