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No one can read Schreiber's Handbuch and Heine's Rabbi without being convinced that the former stood sponsor for the latter. And lastly, Heine wrote before 1821 his poem entitled "Die zwei Brüder." It is the tenth of the seventeen Volkssagen by Schreiber, the same theme as the one treated by W. Usener already referrred to.
Jahn, p. 177, quoting Temme, "Volkssagen"; Ovid, "Metam." l. iii. fab. 3; Tacitus, "Germ." c. 40. Roger of Wendover, "Flowers of History," sub anno 1057. I quote from Dr. Giles' translation. See his Presidential Address to the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archæologists' Field Club, 1886. MS. marked D. This entry is an interpolation in a list of mayors and sheriffs in a different handwriting.