妖精の歌
本文と日本語訳[編集]
ゲーテ[編集]
Um Mitternacht, wenn die Menschen erst schlafen, |
真夜中、人々が眠りについた頃 |
メーリケ[編集]
Bei Nacht im Dorf der Wächter rief: |
夜中に村の番人が叫んだ |
大衆文化における言及[編集]
この詩は、岡本倫による日本の漫画作品『エルフェンリート』の題名の由来となっており、作中にもヴォルフによる歌曲が登場する。
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脚注[編集]
- ^ Zeno. “Volltext von »1780«.” (ドイツ語). www.zeno.org. 2023年7月19日閲覧。
- ^ “Elfenliedchen | Um Mitternacht, wenn die Menschen erst schlafen | LiederNet”. www.lieder.net. 2023年7月19日閲覧。
- ^ Udo Pillokat, Verskunstprobleme bei Eduard Mörike (1969), p. 36.
- ^ elfe is a colloquial or regional variant of elf "eleven" especially in reference to the cardinal number (but here used by the night watchman to announce the eleventh hour). Elfe is normally the feminine form of masculine Elf "elf", but occasionally (as here by Mörike) also used as masculine. German Elf is a direct loan from English "elf", the native German equivalent being Alb, and is used to refer to the tiny creatures of the "fairy" type adopted from English literature (Mörike's elf is small enough to mistake glow-worms for lit windows of a fairy-hall); the word is first used in German in the 1742 translation of Paradise Lost by Johann Jakob Bodmer, and popularised in the second half of the 18th century via Wieland's 1762 translation of A Midsummernight's Dream. Pfeifer (ed.), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1989) s.v. "Elfe".
- ^ "Elfenlied: 'Bunte Schlangen, zweigezüngt' aus Shakespeare’s Sommernachtstraum, f. vierstimm. Chor, Soli u. Orch., deutsch u. engl. Part. Mk 6 n. Klavierauszug Mk 2. Chorst. 8. Mk 1,20" published in May 1894 by Fürstner, Berlin. "(‘You spotted snakes’, from A Midsummer Night's Dream), sop., ch., orch. (c. 1890, arr. from song for v. and pf., 1888, but not same as Elfenlied in Mörike‐Lieder)" Wolf, Hugo in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Ernest Newman, Hugo Wolf (2013), p. 265-
- ^ a b "wohl um die Elfe" is part of the traditional call by night watchmen, combined with short religious verses, such as Um elf Uhr sprach der Herr das Wort: 'Geht auch in meinen Weinberg fort' — Wohl um die Elfe ("At eleven o'clock the Lord spake the word: 'Go forth unto mine vineyard' — just around eleven". Cited in Franz Georg Brustgi, Eningen unter Achalm: Bildnis e. altwürttemberg. Handelsortes (1976), p. 144.
- ^ a b Silpelit is a female elf in "Mörike's private mythology". Both the character and the poem were incorporated into "Der letzte König von Orplid" ("The last King of Orplid"), an interlude in Mörike's novel "Maler Nolten" ("Painter Nolten"). Eric Sams, The Songs of Hugo Wolf (2011), no. 28.
- ^ so in the 1838 publication; variant [1832?] "Schlupft an der Mauer hin so dicht / Da sitzt der Glühwurm Licht an Licht."
- ^ C.f. a word-by-word translation in Berton Coffin, Werner Singer, Pierre Delattre, Word-By-Word Translations of Songs and Arias, Part I: German and French Scarecrow Press, 1 Mar 1994, p. 572f.