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See also:LORELEI (from Old High Ger. Lur, connected with See also:modern Ger. lauern, " to lurk," " be on the See also:watch for," and See also:equivalent to See also:elf, and lai, " a See also:rock ") . The See also:Lorelei is a See also:rock in the See also:Rhine near St See also:Goat, which gives a remarkable See also:echo, which may partly See also:account for the See also:legend . The See also:tale appears in many forms, but is best known through Heinrich See also:Heine's poem, beginning Ich weirs nicht was See also:soli es bedeuten . In the commonest See also:form of the See also:story the Lorelei is a See also:maiden who threw herself into the Rhine in despair over a faithless See also:lover, and became a See also:siren whose See also:voice lured fishermen to destruction . The 13th-See also:century 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, See also:queen of the elves . On the See also:Main she sits combing her locks on the Hullenstein, and the See also:man who See also:sees her loses sight or See also:reason, while he who listens is condemned to wander with her for ever . The legend, which Clemens See also:Brentano claimed as his own invention when he wrote his poem " Zu See also:Bacharach am See also:Rheine " in his novel of Godwi (1802), bears all the marks of popular See also:mythology . In the 19th century it formed material for a See also:great number of songs, dramatic sketches, See also:Court of Judicature See also:Act 1877 . The number was, fixed at five by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1881, s . 3 . Their See also:salary is £5000 a See also:year (see See also:APPEAL) .
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