The nail

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The nail is an example text ( ATU 2039). In the Grimm Brothers' children's and house tales from the 5th edition from 1843 onwards, it is in place 184 (KHM 184) based on the model Vom Reiter und seine Roß from Ludwig Aurbacher's little book for young people .

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A merchant rides home after successful deals and wants to be there before nightfall. At lunchtime during a break, a horseshoe is missing a nail, in the afternoon the iron, but he's in a hurry and won't have it replaced. The horse limps, trips and breaks a leg. He has to walk home and doesn't arrive until late at night. He blames the nail. The narrator concludes: Hurry with a while.

origin

At Aurbacher, the story is designed even more as a teaching model. Wilhelm Grimm reduced the anticipated teaching Whoever does not bear concern in miniature, must suffer damage in the Great and replaced the circuit moral pre-Than and nachbedacht / Has some already brought to damage by Ludo and squared the action guide. His note also cites a saying in Freidank 79, 19-80, 1:

I hear the wise say
a nail keep an isen,
an isenz ros, a ros that man,
a man the burc, who can argue:
a burc daz lant betwinget,
daz ez wrestles after hulden.
the nail that is wol bewant
the isen ros man burc
unt lant solher êren helped
dà from sîn name sô hôhe stât.

The proverb hurry with a while goes back to Sueton's Festina lente in De vita Caesarum (Octavianus 25.4) (see also KHM 164 Der lazy Heinz ). In reading books, Grimm's text replaced older versions.

literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. S. 751.Dusseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 266–267, 511. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 430-431, 578-579. (Scientific publishing house Trier; series of literature studies vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 379-380. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )

Web links

Wikisource: Der Nagel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 379-380. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )