Mîms Klage / The Complaint of Mim the Dwarf

[Val Balmer]

Thanks for the long and detailed analysis!

I agree with most points, but I still don't get this and expecially the part in bold:

Originally Posted by Findegil

Now here we have clearly a robbery. It might be the same as that mentioned at the beginning as the description is very similar. But how could Mîm come out of his ‘den’ in the beginning, if beforehand he had been smoked out and by mocking mercy had been made run like a wild beast, through burning thorns and heather, not finding a way with his reddened eyes? For me at least it seems impossible that we have here mid-sentence a shift of perspective from Mîm reflecting his past to him being actually mishandled. Therefore I think at least the smoking out happened twice: Once here in his past after his time of inspiration, his time of work and his time of rest and then a second time just before he uttered his lament.

Do you imagine the prose part to happen before the poem?

To me all your points seems to indicate that the two pieces desribe the same event, but maybe I am missing something...

Val