Hildebrand

[1] 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.

In the Nibelungenlied, he is the armourer, brother-in-arms, and fatherly friend of Dietrich von Bern.

The poem ends before a conclusion is reached, but in "Hildebrand's Death" it is related that he killed his son.

The Old Norse Thidrekssaga and the Jüngeres Hildebrandslied both contain versions in which Hildebrand defeats his son (here named Alebrand) but does not kill him.