The Danube (51 page)

11. The Wind in the Willows

1.
Algernon Blackwood, ‘The Willows’, from
Three Supernatural Classics
, Dover Mineola, New York, 2008.

2.
See especially István Deák,
The Lawful Revolution – Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848–1849
, Columbia University Press, New York, 1979; Phoenix Press, London, 2001.

3.
For the fate of Batthyány's silkworms, see 〈
http://www.diszmadarmagazin.hu/hun/cikk.php?id=627
〉.

4.
The Venus of Willendorf, a tiny item of exquisite beauty, is on display at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. See Walpurga Antl-Weiser,
Die Frau von W., Die Venus von Willendorf
, Natural History Museum, Vienna, 2008.

5.
Mária Vida,
Spas of Hungary in Ancient Times and Today
, Semmelweis Kiadó, Budapest, 1992, pp. 23–25.

6.
Ibid., p. 25.

7.
János Arany,
The Legend of the Wonderous Stag
: 〈http://mek.oszk.hu/00200/00215/00215.pdf〉.

8.
Author's interview with István Sárvári, 1995.

9.
From the album, Mihály Dresch,
Túl a Vizen
, 1996.

10.
Gábor Ágoston and Balázs Sudár,
Gül Baba
, Terebess, Budapest, 2002.

11.
John Kingsley Birge,
The Bektashi Order of Dervishes
, Luzac, London, 1937; reprinted by Luzac Oriental, London, 1996.

12.
Ágoston and Sudár,
Gül Baba
.

13.
Béla Tóth,
Gül Baba
, Lampel, Budapest, 1907, pp. 9–20.

14.
See the Mahart website 〈
http://www.mahartpassnave.hu/webset32.cgi?MAHART@@EN@@158@@GOOGLEBOT7
〉.

15.
See 〈
http://www.ferrexpo.com/ukraine.aspx
〉.

16.
Photographs of Sylveszter Matuska's trial, and of the man himself, can be seen on the stairs of the Hungarian Lawyers’ Association in Budapest.

17.
On Nagymaros, see ‘Devil Bids Adieu to a Dammed River’,
Observer
, October 1992.

18.
For the sad fate of the
Tatabánya
, see 〈http://iho.hu/hir/a-tatabanya-vontato-vegnapjai〉, 26 July 2011.

19.
Marko Pogačnik,
Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings – Working with the Intelligence in Nature
, Findhorn Press, Findhorn, 2009.

20.
The text of the treaty is at: 〈
http://www.gabcikovo.gov.sk/doc/it1977en/treaty.html
〉.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Author's conversation with János Betlen.

23.
From the documentary film
The Fairy Island
, TintoFilms/ Duna TV 1993 – Thorpe/ Weichinger.

24.
Ibid.

25.
See Danubiana 〈
http://www.danubiana.sk/eng/index.html
〉.

26.
William Blake, ‘The Tyger’
Songs of Experience
, 1794.

27.
See 〈
http://www.broz.sk/organizacia/en
〉.

28.
See 〈
http://www.icjcij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=hs&case=92&k
〉.

29.
For Donauauen National Park, see 〈
www.donauauen.at
〉.

12. Danube Fairytales

1.
Friedrich Hölderlin, Book III, Ch. 10.

2.
Bernard Grun,
Gold and Silver: The Life and Times of Franz Lehár
, David McKay, New York, 1970.

3.
See 〈
http://www.hgm.or.at/index.html?&L=1
〉.

4.
Kinross,
The Ottoman Empire
, p. 324.

5.
See 〈
http://www.muzeum.krakow.pl/Arms-and-Uniforms-in-Poland.350.0.html?&L=1
〉.

6.
Noel Malcolm,
Bosnia: A Short History
, New York University Press, New York, 1996, pp. 153–55.

7.
See 〈
http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/oesterreich/niederoes­terreich/wienerwald/schleierfuerklostern­euburg.html
〉.

8.
See 〈
http://www.tibetforum.at/
〉.

9.
The Roman
Limes
along the Danube are receiving increasing attention in each riverside country as a focus for tourists. See in particular 〈
http://www.danube-limes.eu/homepage
〉.

10.
See 〈
http://www.tulln.at/?lang=1&dok_id=6429&kat=345&anp;mkat=374&op=307
〉.

11.
For ‘the miracle of the rain’, see 〈
http://www.livius.org/le-lh/legio/rain.html
〉.

12.
For Florianus, see 〈
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=149
〉.

13.
Marcel Brion,
Attila – The Scourge of God
, trans. Harold Ward, Cassell, London, 1929.

14.
Mihály Hoppál,
Hungarian Review
, 3, 1, January 2012, pp. 79–91.

15.
Notes taken from the Tulln Museum.

16.
See 〈
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16359991
〉.

17.
See 〈
http://www.hpkuhn-art.de/hpk.html
〉.

18.
For Alemu Aga, see 〈
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnes19ERSBM
〉.

19.
On Richard the Lionheart's heart, see 〈
http://www.nature.com/news/king-s-lionheart-gets-a-forensic-exam-1.12521
〉.

20.
See 〈
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20538124
〉.

21.
For a summary in German, see 〈
http://www.arbeitskreis-wachau.at/downloads/Landschaften11_2.pdf
〉; 〈
www.naturatrails.net
〉; 〈
www.danubeparks.org
〉.

22.
http://www.coronelli.org/index_e.html
.

13. Oh Germany, Pale Mother

1.
Miklós Radnóti,
Under Gemini – A Prose Memoir and Selected Poetry
, trans. Kenneth McRobbie, Zita McRobbie and Jascha Kessler, Corvina Press with Ohio University Press, Budapest and Ohio, 1985, p. 362.

2.
Mauthausen Guide
, Osterreichische Lagergemeinschaft Mauthausen.

3.
Radnóti,
Under Gemini
, p. 105.

4.
Bertolt Brecht: ‘O Deutschland, Bleiche Mutter!’, in English: 〈http://permanentred.blogspot.com/2009/11/o-germany-pale-mother-by-bertolt-brecht.html〉.

5.
Passau – Mythos & Geschichte
, Oberhaus Museum Passau, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, 2007.

6.
On wolves in Germany, see, inter alia:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/the-return-of-wolves-to-germany-fears-are-being-stoked-a-467205.html

7.
Boria Sax,
Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust
, Continuum International, London, 2000.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Interview with the author, Switzerland, October 2011.

10.
Kingdom of Salt – 7000 Years of Hallstatt
, ed. Anton Kern, Kerstin Kowarik, Andreas W. Rausch and Hans Reschreiter, Natural History Museum, Vienna, 2009.

11.
For the capture of the crown near Mattsee in Austria by the US 86th Infantry Division in 1945, see Richard C. Briggs,
Black Hawks over the Danube: The History of the 86th Infantry Division in World War II
, Western Recorder, Louisville, 1954, pp. 94–5.

12.
Danube Bike Trail
, Vol. 1, p. 116.

13.
Ibid., p. 110.

14.
See 〈
http://www.museen-in-bayern.de/inhalt/content.php?type=&objID=464&lang=en
〉.

15.
See 〈http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6078052.stm〉.

16.
See 〈http://international.naturpark-altmuehltal.de/en/〉.

14. The Tailor of Ulm

1.
Luther Bible, 1534, Wittenberg. See 〈http://
lutherbibel
.net/〉.

2.
For Ulm Minster, see
Ulm Minster
, revised English guide (Munich, 2010), 〈
www.dkv.kunstfuehrer.de
〉.

3.
For the Museum der Brotkultur, Ulm, see 〈
http://www.museum-brotkultur.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=59
〉.

4.
For the Danube Swabians, see 〈
http://www.danube-swabians.org/
〉.

5.
‘Blankenstein Hussar’ (my translation).

Afterword. A Kind of Solution

1.
Constantin Cavafy, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’, from
Collected Poems
, trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992; see 〈
http://www.cavafy.com/
〉.

2.
‘Blutsbruder auf ewig: unser Karl May’,
Stuttgarter Zeitung
, 30 March 2012.

3.
Rivka Galchen,
The New Yorker
, 9 April 2012.

4.
Christa Wolf,
The Quest for Christa T.
, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1979.

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Die Frau von W., Die Venus von Willendorf
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Three Supernatural Classics
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Attila – The Scourge of God
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