The monk and the bird
The monk and the little bird is a fairy tale ( AaTh 471 A). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 46 (1845 No. 61) and comes from Friedrich Kind's poems from 1817.
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A young monk reads in the monastery library and doubts Peter's word that a thousand years before God is like a day and a night watch. A little bird is singing in the garden, he follows it, but cannot believe it. When he comes back, the monastery has changed and the monks are backing away from him. It's been three hundred years. He repents and turns to dust.
origin
Bechstein names the source, Friedrich Kind's legendary poem of the same name. What is meant is Psalm 90 ( Ps 90 EU ), where it also says that one becomes dust, or the 2nd letter of Peter ( 2 Petr 3 EU ). Thematically somewhat similar are Bechstein's The King in Bath , Marien-Ritter , The Pious Knight .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 220-22, 388.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 388.