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Alpharts Tod (The
Death of
Alphart) is an
anonymous late
medieval Middle High
German poem in the
poetic cycle of the hero
Dietrich von Bern, the counterpart...
- Anglo-Saxon
poems Beowulf and Widsith. He
later appears in
German epics such as
Alpharts Tod, and in the Old
Norse Þiðreks saga,
which is
based on
German sources...
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saved by a mermaid. In
Alpharts Tod,
Witege and his
companion Heime fight and kill the
young warrior Alphart.
Witege kills Alphart from
behind in order...
- (v sin i) 1.1 km/s Age 420±160 Myr
Other designations Alphard, Alfard,
Alphart, Kalbelaphard, Cor Hydrae, 30 Hydrae, HR 3748, BD−08°2680, HD 81797, SAO...
- name of St
Alphege (Ælfhēah, "elf-tall").
German examples are Alberich,
Alphart and
Alphere (father of
Walter of Aquitaine) and
Icelandic examples include...
- the
Middle High
German poems Dietrichs Flucht, the Rabenschlacht, and
Alpharts Tod
about Dietrich of Bern,
Ermanaric is Dietrich's
uncle who has driven...
- in
connection with
Dietrich and
Heime (Háma's)
liberation by
Witige in
Alpharts Tod as well. Mofdings,
Ofdings Old English: Mōfdingas, Ōfdingas The Widsith...
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Gleste From MHG
gleste "glow, glitter, gleam". The
sword of Eckehart.
Alpharts Tod Gram/Balmung Old Norse: Gramr,
Middle High German:
Balmunc Gramr means...
-
later fantastical poem
Virginal and is
mentioned in the
historical poem
Alpharts Tod.
Widsith mentions him
among a
number of
other Gothic heroes, including...
- today.
Simrock also
translated other heroic poems such as the Kudrun,
Alpharts Tod, and the
Rosengarten zu Worms,
connecting them as Das
kleine Heldenbuch...
