[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
_Märchen_ in 1823, could have used are pointed out in Wilhelm
Hertz's article, pp. 220-21.

[92] Cf. Görres' edition, pp. 94-108.

[93] Cf. _ibid_., pp. 128-40, and 228-44. It is in this
_Märchen_ (p. 231) that Herzeleid sings Goethe's "Wer nie
sein Brod in Thränon asz."

[94] Cf. Görres' edition, pp. 247-57. There are a number of details in
this _Märchen_ that remind strongly of Fouqué's _Undine_,
which Brentano knew.

[95] In his _Die Märchen Clemens Brentanos_, Köln, 1895,
H. Cardauns gives an admirable study of Brentano's _Märchen_,
covering the entire ground concerning the question whether
Brentano's ballad was original and pointing out the sources and