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Alois Brandl does not think that Beowulf and Bjarki were the same person. He calls attention to the difficulty involved in the fact, which, he says, Olrik has emphasized, that "Bjarki" is etymologically unrelated to "Biár"; and of troll fights, he says, there are many in Scandinavian literature.
The latter, however, was almost at once called to Berlin and succeeded by Brandl, now himself of the University of Berlin, who actually presided over Moorman's studies for the next two years, and who thought, and never ceased to think, very highly both of his abilities and his acquirements.
H. MAYNADIER, The Arthur of the English Poets, Boston and New York, 1907. G. PARIS, Histoire littéraire de la France, Paris, 1888. J. RHYS, Studies in the Arthurian Legend, Oxford, 1891. W.H. SCHOFIELD, English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, New York and London, 1906. B. TEN BRINK, Geschichte der Englischen Literatur, and ed., A Brandl, Strassburg, 1899.
It is claimed by Goebel that Goethe’s “Homunculus,” suggested to the master partly by reading of Paracelsus and partly by Sterne’s mediation, is in some characteristics of his being dependent directly on Sterne’s creation. In a meeting of the “Gesellschaft für deutsche Litteratur,” November, 1896, Brandl expressed the opinion that Maria of Moulines was a prototype of Mignon in “Wilhelm Meister.”
Into the social life of his new surroundings he threw himself with all the zest that might have been expected from his essentially sociable nature: making many friendships that of Brandl was the one he most valued and joining in some respects, leading his fellow-students in their sports and other amusements.
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