Langobardic and Old High German: The Lay of Hildebrand (Das Hildebrandslied)

Already my second reading consists in a short excursion into two western Germanic idioms: Old High German, ancestor of today’s standard German, and Langobardic, a pre-Old-High-German dialect—both depicted using the example of the Hildebrand’s Lay. The reconstruction of its Langobardic original text used in this video is taken from the book “Das Westgermanische“ by Wolfram Euler, a recently published, comprehensive grammar of the western Germanic proto language (the common ancestor of German, English and Dut