The enchanted lake
The enchanted lake is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 26, which they translated from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker in 1825 .
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One lake in Western Ireland has a reputation for causing young people to disappear. The young Roderich Keating loses his new wedding ring in Limerick when he shows it to friends who want to scare him for the loyalty of his lover Gretchen Honau. The stupid, innocent paddin is the only one who dares to dive for ten times its value. He meets the drowned youths who work and sing about the beautiful landlady. She is fat and ugly, but gives him the ring because she thinks he wants to marry her. He puts her off and brings Roderich the ring.
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According to Grimm: On the ring in the lake cf. many Irish sagas, e.g. B. Miss Brookes Relics of Irish poetry p. 100. Otherwise cf. KHM 24 Mrs. Holle with the big teeth. In Hesse, children call when it is snowing. Frau Holle is making her bed, the feathers are flying , in Ireland the Scots are plucking their geese!
literature
- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 242–245, 275–276. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)