Hildebrand
Sign in to savethumb|Hildebrand battles King Gjúki|Gibica in [[Rosengarten zu Worms]] thumb|Hildebrand warns the Burgundians Hildebrand is a character from Germanic heroic legend. Hildebrand is the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is Hiltibrant and in Old Norse Hildibrandr. The word hild means "battle" and brand means "sword". The name itself is very likely of Lombardic origin.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Hildebrand is referenced by 207 other articles, and connects out to Gudrun, Dietrich of Bern and Þiðreks saga.
Vinony files it under German heroic legends, Given names and Legendary Norsemen.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Ásmundar saga kappabana
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- Hildebrend
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thumb|Hildebrand battles King Gjúki|Gibica in [[Rosengarten zu Worms]] thumb|Hildebrand warns the Burgundians Hildebrand is a character from Germanic heroic legend. Hildebrand is the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is Hiltibrant and in Old Norse Hildibrandr. The word hild means "battle" and brand means "sword". The name itself is very likely of Lombardic origin.
He is associated with the cycle of legends about Theodoric the Great, called Dietrich in German, to whom he is a companion. Hildebrand appears in many works, most prominently in the Old High German Hildebrandslied, the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, in the Old Norse song "Hildebrand's Death" in Ásmundar saga kappabana (called Hildibrandr), and in the late medieval Jüngeres Hildebrandslied. He also appears as Hildiger in Gesta Danorum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hildebrand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.