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. The poem ends before a conclusion is reached, but in "Hildebrand's Death" it is related that he killed his son. They converse before fighting, and Hadubrand says that he is "Hadubrand Hildebrand's son", but he was told that Hildebrand died, and he accuses Hildebrand of being an old Hun and refuses to believe that he is his father. 30 years later, Hildebrand returns and encounters his son Hadubrand, who is leading his army against Hildebrand. Hildebrand had gone into exile with Dietrich. In the Hildebrandslied, which is older, Hildebrand fights his own son Hadubrand. Hildebrand plays a supporting role to Dietrich in the numerous poems of the Dietrich cycle in poems such as Virginal and Sigenot, Hildebrand tutors the young Dietrich and saves him from various scrapes. Hildebrand kills Kriemhild, after she orders her brother's death and then kills Hagen herself. In the Nibelungenlied, he is the armourer, brother-in-arms, and fatherly friend of Dietrich von Bern. He also appears as Hildiger in Gesta Danorum. 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 is associated with the cycle of legends about Theodoric the Great, called Dietrich in German, to whom he is a companion. The name itself is very likely of Lombardic origin. The word hild means "battle" and brand means "sword". Hildebrand is the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is Hiltibrant and in Old Norse Hildibrandr. Hildebrand is a character from Germanic heroic legend. Hildebrand warns the Burgundians Hundeshagenscher Kodex
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