" It sounds like a case of _ceterum censeo_,
but Thorn's argument as to Brentano and Heine is so thin that this
statement too can be looked upon only as a weakly supported
hypothesis.
[88] Cf. Raimund Pissin's monograph, pp. 73-74.
[89] There are about two thousand words in Schreiber's saga, and about
five thousand in Loeben's.
[90] It must be remembered that Schreiber's manuals are written in an
attractive style: his purpose was not simply to instruct, but to
entertain. And it was not simply the legends of the Rhine and its
tributaries, but those of the whole of Western Germany that he
wrote up with this end in view.
[91] Some minor details that Loeben, or Heine, had he known the
_MAerchen_ in 1823, could have used are pointed out in Wilhelm
Hertz's article, pp. 220-21.
[92] Cf. GOerres' edition, pp. 94-108.
[93] Cf. _ibid_., pp. 128-40, and 228-44. It is in this
_MAerchen_ (p. 231) that Herzeleid sings Goethe's "Wer nie
sein Brod in ThrAenon asz."
[94] Cf. GOerres' edition, pp. 247-57. There are a number of details in
this _MAerchen_ that remind strongly of Fouque's _Undine_,
which Brentano knew.
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