Mats Norrmann wrote:
>Are you kidding man? Wagner had a great lot of humour, and that he
>expressed in his works too.
God, I am sorry! You are right: Wagner is a great humourist. Just
listened to the Ring again today. Tremendous funny beginning: the Maidens
singing "Weia! Wega" Goodness: Weia! Waga! And then: "Wagalaweia!"
Fantastic! Wagalaweia! Now that's what I really call funny.
Tremendous...
(And please do not think strange words like these have anything to do with
Medieval German. I did my thesis on Medieval German, you know. It is
nothing but fantasy, unintentional funny fantasy. - A longer mail on the
Ring's language will follow. - By the way: the Stabreim is nothing but a
special form of the alliteration, and Wagner uses Stabreime en masse in the
Ring. "Walle zur Wiege" - that is a pure Stabreim as "Kind und Kegel" in
Modern German.)
Robert Peters
[log in to unmask]