The stupid
The Dummling ( Neapolitan original: Lo 'ngnorante ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 513). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the eighth story of the third day (III, 8).
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The rich father sends his stupid son away to learn. On the way he finds five companions. One can run fast, one can listen, one aim, one blow and one can carry heavy. The king promises his daughter to whoever overtakes her in the race, she is so fast. The runner makes it. The second time she gives him a crippling ring that leaves him behind, but the listener overhears the plan and the shooter shoots the ring off his finger. The king takes advice and offers money instead of the daughter. The porter carries away all treasures. Soldiers are sent in, but the blower whirls them through the air. The son comes home rich.
Remarks
Compare with Basile I, 5 Der Flea , V, 7 The five sons . The text mentions the legendary runner Atalante . Rudolf Schenda remarks how the king's councilors adhere to the principles of a civil corporation rather than a noble code of honor. The fairy tale first appeared in German in 1845 in Hermann Kletke's Fairy Tale Hall , No. 18. Cf. in Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 71 Sixes Come Through the Whole World , No. 134 The Six Servants .
literature
- Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 267-272, 548-549, 600-601 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
Web links
- Lo 'Ngnorante in the original
- Gutenberg-DE: The Dummling in German translation (presumably after Felix Liebrecht)
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: Image by Josef Hegenbarth for Der Dummling
Individual evidence
- ^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 600-601 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).