Difference between revisions of "Der Erlkönig"

<nowiki>*</nowiki>) Though ''''Hof'''' in German can refer to a castle, it most often does so as in "Hof" being used like the term "the court" in English. "Hof" originally means "yard" (also synonymously used for household, or property). The way that Goethe uses it, and the fact that the father travels with his son on horseback suggests the yard with the connotation of "his own property" as the most likely meaning, not the castle as Sir Walter Scott assumed.