The strong Gottlieb
The strong Gottlieb is a fairy tale ( AaTh 650). It is at position 6 in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales .
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A servant wants to marry, the Lord allows it and wishes a strong son, he will also take him into service. Gottlieb is suckled by his mother for seven years, when he is still too weak, after another seven years he pulls up trees and eats everything away from the other servants. He doesn't want any reward, just a blow to the Lord in the end. His wife immediately sees that he is going to kill him and lets him grind grain in the haunted mill, but Gottlieb is not intimidated and throws a millstone at the ghost's head. He is supposed to clean the well and the other servants roll stones down until he threatens them. Then he should demand money from the giant in the haunted castle and put him to flight. The servants go chopping wood, whoever is back last is released, and Gottlieb is not woken up, but he tears down the bridge on the way so that everyone has to wait for him. A shepherd is supposed to take the blow as a reward and whirls through the air. Mr and Mrs flee, and Gottlieb takes over the farm. The shepherd survived because he fell on a haystack.
Remarks
The strong man makes sayings as if it were nothing and pays the rich man back. Bechstein gives oral tradition "from the upper Saaltale", according to Hans-Jörg Uther the source cannot be determined. See Grimms The Young Giant .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 46-57, 288.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 288.