XII.—The Dialect of the Hildebrandslied
Francis A. Wood
As Holtzmann has shown the Hildebrandslied as we now have it is a copy from an older manuscript. That was not written in its present form memory seen fact that mistakes are those of sight. For example, Hiltibraht occurs six times for Hiltibrant, man inan, unti miti , etc. The errors show writer or writers did fully understand what they were writing, and their copying mechanical. It follows manuscript which wrote differ materially copy, other words, linguistic confusion already present. This confusion, however, cannot be entirely explained unless with Kögel assume at earlier time there memory.
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