The field with hornbeams
The field with hornbeams is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 15, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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Thomas Fitzpatrick, a rich and handsome son of the tenant of Ballincolig in Cork , goes out for a walk on public holidays and thinks disparagingly of people who work. He sees a Cluricaun mending a shoe in a hedge with the contents of a jug and speaks to him about what he is doing. He answers briefly, claims that there is good beer made from heather according to a Danish recipe in the jug and distracts, the cattle are trampling on the fruit. But Thomas doesn't turn his gaze, grabs the little one, the beer falling over, and forces him to show his gold. The elf leads him on a laborious path to a hornbeam. Thomas marks them with a red stocking and gets a spade. But when he comes back, all trees have a ribbon like this. He's been tricked.
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According to Grimm: The original name for Hagebuche is boliaun , which they could not translate. The Danish heather beer is a widespread tradition in Ireland.
literature
- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 186-190, 264-265. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)