essentials of Heine's ballad are not in Loeben's, and to
"einegewisse Ähnlichkeit in Form," though the similarity in form
is most pronounced.

[45] In _Allgemeine deut. Biog_., XIX. 44. It is interesting to
see how Professor Muncker lays stress on this matter by placing in
parentheses the statement: "Einige Züge der letzten Geschichte
["Sage vom Rhein"] regten Heine zu seinem bekannten Liede an."

[46] In _Dichtungen von Heinrich Heine, ausgewählt und
erläutert_, Bonn, 1887, p. 326. Hessel's Statement is
peculiarly unsatisfactory, since he says (p. 309) that he is going
to the sources of Heine's poems, and then, after reprinting
Loeben's ballad, he says: "Dieses Lied war Heines nächstes
Vorbild. Ausführlicheres bei Strodtmann, Bd. I, S. 362." And this
edition has been well received.

[47] In _Grundriss, VI, 110. Again we read in parentheses: "Aus
diesem Liede und dem Eingänge der Erzählung schöpfte H. Heine sein
Lied von der Loreley."

[48] In _Ges. d. deut. Lit_., p. 662 (8th ed.).

[49] In _Heinrich Heines Beziehungen zum deutschen Mittelalter_,
Berlin, 1908, pp., 94-95. Mücke is the most cautious of the ten
authorities above listed; and he anticipated Walzel in his
reference to Schreiber's _Handbuch_.

[50] In _Ueber den Namen Lorelei, p. 224. Hertz is about as cautious
as Strodtmann; "Es ist kaum zu bezweifeln dass," etc.