The carrot
The turnip is a farce ( ATU 1689A, 1535). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 146 (KHM 146) and is based on a lost manuscript from the 14th century called Raparius .
content
A poor soldier becomes a farmer and harvests a huge turnip, which he gives to the king, for which he is richly rewarded. His rich brother brings the king gold and horses, but only gets the turnip back. He lures his brother out on the pretext of a treasure, where murderers grab him and hang him from a tree with a sack over his head, while the approaching pounding of horses drives them away. It is a pupil whom the farmer addresses from above, he hangs in the sack of wisdom, where he learns everything. The student wants that too and is finally allowed to let him pull himself down and up. The farmer takes the student's horse, but sends someone to free him.
origin
Grimm's note explains the origin from a Latin poem from the Middle Ages , which contains 392 lines in elegiac meter and is overwritten by Raparius (Jacob Grimm's copy from 1814 is preserved).
literature
- 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. 186–205, 563. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; Series of literature studies. Vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8
