Walter Meyer wrote:

>Those of us who grew up in a German cultural milieu, unpolluted by
>Third Reich philosophy, are probably more likely to be familiar with the
>charming, artless, setting by Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860).  It was so
>popular in Germany that even the Nazis couldn't suppress this song to a
>text by a non-Aryan poet and therefore had it attributed to "an unknown
>German poet" ("ein unbekannter deutscher Dichter").

And the Loreley by Silcher is still popular in Germany.  Everyone knows the
melody.

>My question, should any care to undertake a reply, is, what is the dialect
>in which the last translation is written? ...

It is Saechsisch, the German dialect spoken in Saxony.  It was the dialect
Wagner spoke.  (Now imagine this giant and guru speaking a dialect which
always has been the laughingstock of the other German tribes.)

Have a Schubert kind of day,
Robert Peters
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