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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...
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  • 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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    later fantastical poem Virginal and is mentioned in the historical poem Alpharts Tod. Widsith mentions him among a number of other Gothic heroes, including...
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    today. Simrock also translated other heroic poems such as the Kudrun, Alpharts Tod, and the Rosengarten zu Worms, connecting them as Das kleine Heldenbuch...
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    the Middle High German poems Dietrichs Flucht, the Rabenschlacht, and Alpharts Tod about Dietrich of Bern, Ermanaric is Dietrich's uncle who has driven...
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    und Dietleib, Rosengarten zu Worms, Dietrichs Flucht, Rabenschlacht, Alpharts Tod. Wärbel Wärbel(în) The name "Wärbel" is probably derived from MHG werben...
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    Dietrichs Flucht, Rabenschlacht, Alpharts Tod, Biterolf und Dietleib, Rosengarten zu Worms, Virginal, Ermenrichs Tod Rimstein (Ribestein) Middle High...
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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...
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    the princes. Dietrichs Flucht, Rabenschlacht, Rosengarten zu Worms, Alpharts Tod Imd Old Norse: Imd From PN *īmiþō. It is the same root as in the giantess...
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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...
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