i-1.
[42] Thorn, who drew on M.R. Hewelcke's _Die Loreleisage_,
Paderborn, 1908, makes (p. 90) this suggestion. It is impossible
for the writer to see how Thorn can be so positive in regard to
Brentano's influence on Heine. And one's faith is shaken by this
sentence on the same page: "Brentano verOeffentlichte sein
_Radlauf-MAerchen_ erst 1827, Heine 'Die Lorelei' schon 1826."
Both of these dates are incorrect. Guido GOerres, who must be
considered a final authority on this matter, says that, though
Brentano tried to publish his _MAerchen_ as early as 1816,
none of them were published until 1846, except extracts from "Das
MyrtenfrAeulein," and a version of "Gockel," neither of which bears
directly on the Lorelei-matter.
[43] Of GOerres' second edition, I, 250: "Nachdem Murmelthier herzlich
fUer diese Geschenke gedankt hatte, sagte Frau Else: 'Nun, mein
Kind! kAemme mir und Frau Lurley die Haare, wir wollen die deinigen
dann auch kAemmen'--dann gab sie ihr einen goldnen Kamm, und
Murmelthier kAemmte Beiden die Haare und flocht sie so schOen, dass
die Wasserfrauen sehr zufrieden mit ihr waren.
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