[86] Niklas Vogt included, to be sure, in his _Jugendphantasien üher die Sagen des Rheins_ (_ca._ 1811) an amplified recapitulation in prose of Brentano's ballad. Schreiber knew this work, for in his _Handbuch_ there is a bibliography of no fewer than ten pages of "Schriften, welche auf die Rheingegend Bezug haben." So far as one can determine such a matter from mere titles, the only one of these that could have helped him in the composition of his Lorelei-saga is: _Rheinische Geschichten und Sagen_, von Niklas Vogt. Frankfurt am Main, 1817, 6 Bände. [87] Eduard Thorn says (p. 89): "Man darf annehmen, dass Heine die Ballade Brentano's kennen gelernt hat, dass er aus ihr den Namen entlehnte, wobei ihm Eichendorff die Fassung 'Lorelei' lieferte, und das ihm erst Loebens Auffassung der Sage zur Gestaltung verhelfen hat." 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 _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 the value of his, _Rheinmärchen_. Cardauns comes to the only conclusion that can be reached: Brentano located his ballad in a region replete with legends, but there is no positive evidence that he did not wholly invent his own ballad. The story that Hermann Bender tells about having found an old MS dating back to the year 1650 and containing the essentials of Brentano's ballad collapses, for this MS cannot be produced, not even by Bender who claims to have found it. See Cardauns, pp. 60-67. Reinhold Steig reviewed Cardauns' book in _Euphorion_ (1896, pp. 791-99) without taking in the question as to the originality of Brentano's ballad.