The Rose (Brothers Grimm)

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The rose is the third of ten children's legends in the appendix to the children's and household tales by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 203). It is printed in dialect.

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A poor woman's younger child has to fetch wood every day. He meets a child who carries the wood and gives him a rose that will come back when it blossoms. At first the mother doesn't believe it, but puts her in the water. One morning she finds the child dead. It looks very nice and the rose has bloomed.

origin

The legend is from the second edition (1819) as children Legend Nos. 3, according to Grimm's note from the Pader Börni's of family Haxthausen . They notice that the white rose in particular is generally seen as an omen of death, its blooming as eternal life and compare from their German sagas No. 24. Cf. KHM 76 The Carnation , KHM 204 Poverty and humility lead to heaven .

Jacob Grimm assumed that the strange child who presented the rose was an angel . Hans-Jörg Uther notes that the rose or lily appears as a symbol of death in legends of the 17th century and assumes that older notions of transmigration of souls have been preserved in the image of the transition of the soul into plants . According to Hedwig von Beit , the rose, often a mirror image of the sun or God's incarnation, functions here as a symbol of the self .

literature

  • Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 275-276, 517 .
  • Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook to the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin, effect, interpretation . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 411-412 .

Web links

Wikisource: The Rose  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook on the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin, effect, interpretation . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 411 .
  2. ↑ Hedwig von Beit: Symbolism of the fairy tale. Bern 1952. p. 534. (A. Francke AG, Verlag)