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Subject:	Re: History of Lorelei?
Author:	Andy ;—) (guest, 84.165.60.136)
Date:	October 4, 2005 at 1:54:16 AM
Reply to:	Re: History of Lorelei? by CerriC

Here is some info on the Loreley / Lorelei:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley

Obviously it wasn't Heine, but rather Clemens Brentano who made a woman out of the rock. The legend of the Loreley is much older though.

For the "lore" part I also found the meaning "elf", but I cannot confirm this. (LORELEY in Der Große Brockhaus, 1935, says: "from Middle High German lur = elf". I don't have a dictionary of MHG and it's not in Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch, so I don't really know

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History of Lorelei? - serendipity2004 Oct 3 2005, 1:26:23 PM
- Re: History of Lorelei? - Kaleko Oct 3 2005, 3:59:55 PM
- Re: History of Lorelei? - CerriC Oct 3 2005, 2:17:13 PM
  - Re: History of Lorelei? - Chrisell Oct 3 2005, 7:34:37 PM
    - Re: History of Lorelei? - CerriC Oct 3 2005, 10:05:13 PM
      - Re: History of Lorelei? - Andy ;—) Oct 4 2005, 1:54:16 AM
      - Re: History of Lorelei? - Chrisell Oct 3 2005, 10:23:05 PM
        
        Re: History of Lorelei? - Cleveland Kent Evans Oct 4 2005, 7:27:07 AM
        
        Re: History of Lorelei? - CerriC Oct 5 2005, 11:50:54 PM

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