sigambrian

Updated: July 19, 2026

Those who, with Grimm , admit a transition of Low into High-German, and deny that the change of Gothic Th into High- German D took place before the sixth or seventh century, will find it difficult to account, in the first century, for the name of Deudorix, a German captive, the nephew of Melo the Sigambrian, mentioned by Strabo . In the oldest German poem in which the name of Dietrich occurs, the song of Hildebrand and Hadebrand, written down in the beginning of the ninth century , we find both forms, the Low-German Theotrih, and the High-German Deotrih, used side by side.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge