Das Hildebrandslied: Teil I

Ik gihorta ðat seggen
Ðat sih urhettun ænon muotin
Hiltibrant enti Haðubrant untar heriun tuem
Sunufatarungo iro saro rihtun.

Garutun sê iro guðhamun, gurtun sih iro suert ana
Helidos, ubar hringa, do sie to dero hiltiu ritun
Hiltibrant gimahalta, [Heribrantes sunu,] - her uuas heroro man
Ferahes frotoro—her fragen gistuont
Fohem uuortum, hwer sin fater wari.

Fireo in folche
"eddo hwelihhes cnuosles du sis
Ibu du mi enan sages, ik mi de odre uuet
Chind in chunincriche. Chud ist mi al irmindeot"
Hadubrant gimahalta, Hiltibrantes sunu:

Garutun sê iro guðhamun, gurtun sih iro suert ana
Helidos, ubar hringa, do sie to dero hiltiu ritun
Hiltibrant gimahalta, [Heribrantes sunu,] - her uuas heroro man
Ferahes frotoro—her fragen gistuont
Fohem uuortum, hwer sin fater wari.

"dat sagetun mi usere liuti
Alte anti frote, dea érhina warun
Dat Hiltibrant hætti min fater, ih heittu Hadubrant
Forn her ostar giweit, floh her Otachres nid
Hina miti Theotrihhe enti sinero degano filu.

Her furlaet in lante luttila sitten
Prut in bure barn unwahsan
Arbeo laosa. Her raet ostar hina
Des sid Detrihhe darba gistuontun
Gistuontun, fateres mines: dat uuas so friuntlaos man.

Her was Otachre ummet tirri
Degano dechisto miti Deotrihhe
Her was eo folches at ente: imo was eo fehta ti leop
Chud was her chonnem mannum
Ni waniu ih iu lib habbe."

"wettu irmingot", quad Hiltibrant, "obana ab heuane
Dat du neo dana halt mit sus sippan man
Dinc ni gileitos!"
Want her do ar arme wuntane bauga, cheisuringu gitan, so imo se der chuning gap.

Huneo truhtin: "dat ih dir it nu bi huldi gibu"
Hadubrant gimahalta, Hiltibrantes sunu
"mit geru scal man geba infahan
Ort widar orte
Du bist dir, alter Hun, ummet spaher.

Her was Otachre ummet tirri
Degano dechisto miti Deotrihhe
Her was eo folches at ente: imo was eo fehta ti leop
Chud was her chonnem mannum
Ni waniu ih iu lib habbe."

Huneo truhtin: "dat ih dir it nu bi huldi gibu"
Hadubrant gimahalta, Hiltibrantes sunu
"mit geru scal man geba infahan
Ort widar orte
Du bist dir, alter Hun, ummet spaher.