Abstract
The archetypal tale of the fight between father and son, which is variously modulated in numerous cultural areas, has its lesser-known manifestation in the Germanic traditions: it is a narrative complex which moves across centuries, bound-aries and communicative codes, taking on different – even contrasting – characteristics. A nonlinear narrative, then, but a rhizomatic one, which this essay aims to examine through some of its major attestations from the 9th to the 20th cen-tury: the Old German Lay of Hildebrand, the Gesta Danorumof the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, the Icelandic Ás-mundar saga kappabana and the Norwegian Þiðreks saga af Bern, the Early New High German ballad Jüngeres Hilde-brandslied with images accompanying some witnesses, and the tragedy Hildebrand und Hadubrand staged in 1944.
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