Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine

· 1955

INTRODUCTION I TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL II THE RHINE IN FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE III CLEVES TO THE LOeWENBURG IV DRACHENFELS TO RHEINSTEIN V FALKENBURG TO AUERBACH VI WORMS AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED VII HEIDELBERG TO SAeCKINGEN An abundance of literature exists on the subject of the Rhine and its legends, but with few exceptions the works on it which are accessible to English-speaking peoples are antiquated in spirit and verbiage, and their authors have been content to accept the first version of such legends and traditions as came their way without submitting them to any critical examination. It is claimed for this book that much of its matter was collected on the spot, or that at least mo…

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