Ermenrichs Tod
16th century Continental Germanic ballad / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ermenrichs Tod or Koninc Ermenrîkes Dôt (transl. the death of king Ermenrich) is an anonymous Middle Low German heroic ballad from the middle of the sixteenth century. It is a late attestation of Germanic heroic legend.
The ballad, which is printed in a highly garbled form, tells the story of how Ermenrich is killed by Dietrich von Bern and several other heroes. The poem shows numerous similarities to older stories about Ermenrich attested in early medieval and Old Norse sources.