The white wolf (Bechstein)
The white wolf is a fairy tale ( AaTh 425). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book from 1853 at position 67 and comes from Karl Müllenhoff's sagas, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1845, Book 4, No. 3).
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A king gets lost in the forest, a little black man helps him out. To do this, he has to give him what comes first to meet him at home. He thinks it'll be his dog, but it's his daughter. After eight days the white wolf carries her away, but when she asks three times on the way whether it is still far to the glass mountain, he throws her off. On her lonely search she comes to the old forest mother, to the wind, the sun and the moon, they haven't seen the white wolf, but they eat chicken soup with her and give her the bones, one of which she forgets. The moon shines on her to the glass mountain, she climbs it on a ladder from the bones. One thing is missing, but she cuts off a phalanx. Inside, the black man is sadly holding a wedding with a lady. The princess sings him a song by which she recognizes that everything is saved.
origin
From 1853 onwards, the fairy tale is without a note at Bechstein. It comes from Karl Müllenhoff's sagas, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1845, Book 4, No. 3). See. The Nußzweiglein . The beginning is similar to Grimm's Hurleburlebutz , on the Glasberg cf. The seven ravens , to “your best dog, I don't like him” The Frog Prince . On the riding scene cf. Gottfried August Bürgers Lenore .
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. 314-318, 392.
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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. 392.