The two künigeskinner

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De two Künigeskinner is a fairy tale ( ATU 313). In the Brothers Grimm 's children's and house tales, it appears at position 113 (KHM 113), probably in Low German . In the 1st edition the title was Die Zwei Künnigeskinner , in the 2nd edition De Zwei Künnigeskinner .

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A 16-year-old prince, who according to the signs will die at this age by a stag, sees one on the hunt, but does not meet him. In front of the forest there is a tall man who says he has been looking for him for a long time, takes him to his castle, eats with him and gives him tasks. First he has to watch his three daughters one night and answer his hourly calls. In return he promises him the eldest daughter, but if it fails, he has to die. But they have a stone man answer for him so that he can sleep. Then he has to cut down a forest, clean a lake, clear a mountain of thorn bushes and build a castle on it. The glass tool does not last, but the youngest daughter enjoys him after dinner until he sleeps and lets meerkats do the work. When he still doesn't get her, he runs away with her at night. She sees the father coming and turns them both into Dornbusch and Rose, where the father stabs himself and goes home. His wife sends him to break off the rose, but they become a church and pastor who preaches. The father listens and goes home. The woman herself comes and drinks the lake with fish, into which the daughter transforms them both, but has to spit it out again and gives her three walnuts. The prince makes his bride wait in a village to have her picked up by carriages, but after a kiss from his mother he forgets her. She looks for a job and the mother gives him a wife. When they are about to be married, the king's daughter appears in a dress made from one of the nuts next to it, which she only gives for one night in front of his door. But only the servants hear their calls. The second time you give him a wake drink instead of the ordered sleep. But the mother has locked the door. He waits until morning, apologizes, and she takes the dress from the third nut for the wedding.

origin

The fairy tale is in the children's and house tales from the second part of the 1st edition (1815, since no. 27) as no. 113, according to the note "from the Paderbörnischen" (by Ludowine von Haxthausen ). Grimms compare KHM 51 Fundevogel , KHM 56 Der Liebste Roland and KHM 88 The singing, jumping little Löweneckerchen because of magical escape and forgetting as well as in Madame d'Aulnoy No. 8, “altd. Forests 1. Booklet 4 “and a Hungarian fairy tale about the glass hoe . The expression “Arweggers herut” (worker out) in the text reminds you of the dwarf name Aurvagur from the Edda and arvakur (“the early awake”; horse name from the Sigurd trip ) and English “earwig” (earwig).

Cf. KHM 186 The True Bride , KHM 193 The Drummer ; in Ludwig Bechstein's German fairy tale book from 1845 The three nuts . On the stone Christophorus cf. the saying "to have a Christoffel who carries you across the water" (to have a patron).

Cf. in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron II, 7 Die Taube , III, 9 Rosella , V, 3 Pinto Smauto .

literature

  • Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition . With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , pp. 548-555 .
  • Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 207, 489 .
  • Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook to the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin, effect, interpretation . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 253-254 .

Web links

Wikisource: De Zwei Künigeskinner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook on the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin, effect, interpretation . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 253 .