([St. XXXIV.]) Lachmann places this and the following stanzas after St. XIX, as part of his Sixteenth Lay.
TWENTY-NINTH ADVENTURE
([St. I.]) Von der Hagen discovers here (v. 7055 of his Remarks) a trace of the tradition (which, however, is not noticed in this poem) that Hagan had lost an eye. This appears visionary to me. At St. XVII, Thirty-second Adventure, the same words are applied to Dankwart, who certainly had two eyes in his head. Twice in this poem a personal description of Hagan occurs (St. XXV, Seventh Adventure, and XVII, Twenty-eighth Adventure) and in neither case is a hint given that he was a dux luscus. The author or authors of the Nibelungenlied, therefore, must have followed a different tradition.
([St. XXVIII.]) It is Folker's long broadsword that the poet, with a grim kind of merriment, calls his fiddlestick. We shall soon see the minstrel κῶμον ἀναυλότατον προχορεύειν.
([St. XL.]) Walter of Spain, Waltharius manu fortis, is the hero here alluded to. [See note] to St. XXI; Thirty-ninth Adventure.
([St. XLVII.]) This stanza, and those that follow, come, according to Lachmann's arrangement, after St. XXXIII, Twenty-eighth Adventure, and form part of his Seventeenth Lay.
([St. XLVIII.]) This allusion to the future is of such a nature as to be irreconcilable with the notion of separate lays. The like may be said of many other passages.
([St. LV.]) Morat or morass, as far as I can make out from a rather confused note of von der Hagen's, was a sort of caudle, flavored with mulberry or cherry juice. Ziemann's recipe is to take old and good wine, and to mix it with mulberry syrup, rose julep, cinnamon water, and an ad libitum infusion of simples. All this together composes the sweet drink in question.
THIRTIETH ADVENTURE