Talk:Lorelei (disambiguation)

Better links needed

Astounding that there are no references to the German writers and artists that the story came from, except indirectly through one non-obvious link.

It's not myth or folktale, as implied in the text, but it does have roots in literature that aren't even mentioned here.

Instead there are trivial references in random TV shows, games, and sci-fi novels.

188.154.206.128 (talk) 20:31, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Examples

Here is material from a random page on the net. The point is not the content, but the two references/links that we see here:

1) Brentano novel

2) Heine poem

"Lorelei, German Loreley, large rock on the bank at a narrows of the Rhine River near Sankt Goarshausen, Germany. The rock produces an echo and is associated with the legend of a beautiful maiden who threw herself into the Rhine in despair over a faithless lover and was transformed into a siren who lured fishermen to destruction. The essentials of the legend were claimed as his invention by German writer Clemens Brentano in his novel Godwi (1800–02). Lorelei has been the subject of a number of literary works and songs; the poem Die Loreley by Heinrich Heine was set to music by more than 25 composers."