What is the legend of lorelei?

Answer 1

Lorelei. In German legend a siren who haunted a rock an eye-catching 400 feet high slate rock above the city of St. Goarshausen, of the same name on the right bank of the Rhine river. She combed her hair with a golden comb, and sang a wild song which enticed fishermen and sailors to destruction on the rocks and rapids at the foot of the precipice. In Northern mythology Lorelei is represented as immortal, a daughter of the Rhine, and dwelling in the river bed.

Answer 2

I have been there on the Rhine in Germany
German Loreley, large rock on the bank at a narrows of the Rhine River near Sankt Goarshausen, Ger. 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…

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

I remember in our German lesson at School we had to learn the song of the Lorelei madchen:-

Ich weiß nicht was soll es bedeutey,
Dass ich so traurig bin;
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten,
Das darf ich bin aus dem Sinn.

Die Luft ist kühl und es leutet,
Und ruhig fließt der Rhein;
Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt
Im Abendsonnenschein.

Die schönste Jungfrau sitzet
Dort oben wunderbar;
Ihr goldnes Geschmeide blitzet,
Sie kämmt ihr goldenes Haar.

Sie kämmt es mit goldenem Kamme
Und singt ein Lied dabei;
Das hat eine wundersame,
Gewaltige Melodei.

Den Schiffer im kleinen Schiffe
Ergreift es mit wildem Weh;
Er schaut nicht die Felsenriffe,
Er schaut nur hinauf in die Höh.

Ich glaube, die Wellen verschlingen
Am Ende Schiffer und Kahn;
Und das hat mit ihrem Singen
Die Lore-Ley getan.

... or something like that.

Answer 5

Those explanations are correct I was there about a month ago and it was wine festival time. Whoopee

Answer 6

she was in german mythology, a kind of siren. she sat on a rock in the river rhine and sang to passing sailors, driving them mad till they crashed on the rocks.
a kind of early victoria beckham

Answer 7

miserable german siren. threw herself off the cliff. it's a pretty impressive cliff to throw yourself off...i sailed past, but ran out of camera film just before i got there. :-(
pretty song though

Answer 8

check out this website...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei

Answer 9

she is a muse who lures sailors to there death on rocks by singing to them

all the best
Ian

Answer 10

She was a whore who lied.