In this time, the myth of the so-called "hereditary enmity" (German: "Erbfeindschaft") came into being, according to which the Romanic French and the Germanic Germans had been antithetic enemies ever since the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a notion that was inherently unhistorical. In the 19th century, anti-French sentiment became commonplace in German political discourse even if the deep cultural interrelation between the two could never be blanked out completely. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poked fun at this in his epic Faust I with the verse: "Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden, doch ihre Weine trinkt er gern." "A real German man likes no Frenchy, but he likes to drink their wines.")