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On the ancient Teutonic poetry and romance. Das Heldenbuch--the Book of heroes. Der Nibelungenlied.--The Song of the Nibelungen. Die klage--the lament. Fragment of a prose romance (Hildebrandslied) in the Saxon dialect of the Teutonic, written about the eighth century, and printed from a manuscript preserved in Cassel, in Eccardi Comment. de rebus Franciae orientalis. The song of Old Hildebrand. The battle of King Tidrich and the lion with the linden-worm. Edited by H. W. Weber.