One thing doesn’t make sense: one word does not change a monster-filled epic to courtly intrigue or chivalric romance. There would be a lot of other contacts for the form a poem takes.
The poems are missing !
All they have is the reference line !!!
A y versus v error
“ The corrected translation of the text alters its meaning: it changes from ‘Some are elves and some are adders; some are sprites that dwell by waters: there is no man, but Hildebrand only.’ to ‘Thus they can say, with Wade: ‘Some are wolves and some are adders; some are sea-snakes that dwell by the water. There is no man at all but Hildebrand.’”