"Rätsel" (Riddle) is a German riddle-song from the 1806 collection of folks songs Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano.
The text is written in iambic tetrameter.
"Rätsel" (Riddle) is a German riddle-song from the 1806 collection of folks songs Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano.
The text is written in iambic tetrameter. According to German studies academic Klaus Manger, this folk poem might have inspired Brentano for some of his own poems.
The song was also published in later songbooks and anthologies (Mythologische Bibliothek, Carl Gustav Schwetschke's Die Natur etc.). 1
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Rätsel is German riddle song, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
