Note 646 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
See p. 6 of Müllenhoff: “Actionum autem choricarum triplex est genus: pompa, saltatio, ludus; quorum et simplicissimum est pompa et quasi primitivum.” He treats only the first of these three; but a valuable paper on the sword-dance (“Ueber den Schwerttanz,” in the Festgabe für G. Homeyer, 1871), the essay De Carmine Wessofontano, and many hints in his introduction to the Sagen, Märchen u. Lieder d. Herzogth. Schleswig-Holstein u. Lauenburg, 1845, make up the omission.