LORELEI (from Old High Ger. Lur, connected with modern Ger. lauern, " to lurk," " be on the watch for," and equivalent to elf, and lai, " a rock ")

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LORELEI (from Old High Ger. Lur, connected with modern Ger. lauern, " to lurk," " be on the watch for," and equivalent to elf, and lai, " a rock ") . The Lorelei is a

rock

in the Rhine near St Goat, which gives a remarkable echo, which may partly account for the legend. The tale appears in many forms, but is best known through Heinrich Heine's poem, beginning Ich weirs nicht was

soli

SOLI
SOLI (mod. Mezetlii)

es bedeuten. In the commonest form of the story the Lorelei is a maiden who threw herself into the Rhine in despair over a faithless lover, and became a

siren

SIREN

whose voice lured fishermen to destruction. The 13th-

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

minnesinger, known as Der Marner, says that the Nibelungen treasure was hidden beneath the

rock

. The tale is obviously closely connected with the myth of Holda, queen of the elves. On the Main she sits combing her locks on the Hullenstein, and the man who

sees

SEES

her loses sight or reason, while he who listens is condemned to wander with her for ever. The legend, which Clemens Brentano claimed as his own invention when he wrote his poem " Zu Bacharach am

Rheine

RHEINE

" in his novel of Godwi (1802), bears all the marks of popular mythology. In the 19th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

it formed material for a

great

GREAT

number of songs, dramatic sketches,

Court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

of Judicature Act 1877. The number was, fixed at five by the Supreme

Court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

of Judicature Act 1881, s. 3. Their salary is 5000 a year (see

APPEAL

APPEAL

).

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