Buffalo leather boots
Buffalo leather boots are a fairy tale ( ATU 952). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 6th edition from 1850 at position 199 (KHM 199) and comes from Friedmund von Arnim's collection Hundred New Fairy Tales Collected in the Mountains (No. 4 by Brother Stiefelschmeer ).
content
A fearless, carefree soldier wandered around in his old buffalo leather boots after his abdication. He meets a hunter whom he calls "brother jerk boots" because of his finer clothes. At night they seek refuge in a house, where an old woman hides from twelve robbers coming home. When they find them because the soldier can no longer stand the smell of the roast and betrayed himself, they allow them to eat before they want to kill them. The soldier impresses her with his appetite so much that he also gets wine. When he proclaims health on them you shall all live, but open your mouth and hold your right hand up , they are petrified. The two eat their fill, then they go home and the soldier fetches his comrades who arrest the robbers. When the hunter reveals himself to be king, the soldier is frightened, but from now on receives free food as thanks.
origin
Grimm's note mentions the source Vom Bruder Stiefelschmeer from Friedmund von Arnim's Hundred New Fairy Tales Collected in the Mountains and Another, less good view in Wolf's Hausmärchen p. 65 the bad comrades. The plot remained unchanged compared to Arnim, but Wilhelm Grimm added the many idioms and soldier jargon, which makes the text longer in Grimm. Heinz Rölleke lists: Ignoring highways and byways , but go through thick and thin , like and like attracts like , you shall on a dry branch to learn to fly , the guy makes no circumstances , see your nasty surprise , nest full Gallows , we are looking for a night's quarters and some lining for our stomachs, because mine is as empty as an old knapsack , it won't hit the collar in a moment , began to bravely chop the roast , that would have marched off too early, we have defeated the enemy and first want to take booty , now it is time for us to break down the tent . Cf. KHM 81 Brother Lustig .
literature
- Friedmund von Arnim: A hundred new fairy tales collected in the mountains. Edited by Heinz Rölleke. First edition, Cologne 1986. p. 32, pp. 51-54. (Eugen Diederichs Verlag; ISBN 3-424-00891-5 )
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 806-809. Düsseldorf 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. S. 274, 516. 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. 538-545, 584-585. (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. 405-407. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: King and Soldier. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 8. pp. 175-178. Berlin, New York, 1996.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedmund von Arnim: A hundred new fairy tales collected in the mountains. Edited by Heinz Rölleke. First edition, Cologne 1986. p. 32. (Eugen Diederichs Verlag; ISBN 3-424-00891-5 )