Langobardic and Old High German: The Lay of Hildebrand

Right 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 preOldHighGerman dialectboth 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 Dutch