Re: Where does EJ say he found Stahlgewitter in Edda?

["Olaf Schröter" <olaf.schroeter@gmx.de>]

Rebing schrieb:

> Your are right, Bertil, if EJ says he got Stahlgewitter from the Edda it must be
> so, he used to be very accurate in such philological-bibliographical matters. So
> halali again, lets us go on looking for the source! But where exactly in his
> writings did the Master say he took it from the Edda? Hälsningar, Günter

Hello out there,

I found something on the subject in the book "Julien Hervier: Entretiens avec Ernst
Jünger" (PARIS 1986) There Juenger says:

Julien Hervier: "Comment avez-vous trouvé ce titre d'Orages d'acier? ("How did you
find the title 'Storm of Steel' "for all you English only Cats ;-)

Ernst Juenger: "J'avais d'abord pensé intituler l'œuvre 'Le Rouge et le Gris', car
j'avais dès avant la guerre lu avec un grand enthousiasme 'Le Rouge et Le Noir' de
Stendhal. Peut-être aurais-je dû garder ce titre, car ce furent effectivement les
couleurs de cette guerre qui ignora les uniforms rutilants. Mais je lisais les
Islaindais, et je tombai dans un poème sur ce terme d' "orages d'acier" qui me plut
beaucoup. Je suis aujourd'hui d'un avis un peu different." (p.26)

(At first I wanted to call the work "The Red and The Grey", because I had read "The
Red and The Black" by Stendhal enthusiastically before the war. Maybe I should have
stuck to that title because those effectively were the colors of that war, which
ignored the shiny uniforms. But I was reading the Icelandics at that time and I
happened upon the term "Storm of Steel" in a poem (NOTE: NOT THE EDDA EXPLICITLY.
OS), which I liked a lot. Today I'm of a slightly different opinion.)

For what it's worth.

Greetings from Berlin, where summer has returned to go out in glorious fashion

Olaf Schroeter

PS The colloquium in Heidelberg was BIG FUN and I want to thank Bertil and Thomas
Friese for their help and ideas and John for being there....