The two brothers (Bechstein)
The two brothers is a Schwank ( AaTh 1681 B, 1653 B). It is at number 45 in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales.
content
A clever brother and a stupid brother take turns tending sheep, while the other cooks and brings food. The stupid stuffs dumplings and cabbage into the gaps in a bridge to secure them. The clever one advises him to just leave the sheep lying next to each other tomorrow. When they don't want to, the stupid kills them. Because of the threat of punishment, both of them flee with their kettles and climb a tree in the forest. Below are two robbers with gold and nuts. First it drips from above, then chunks fall, and finally the whole cauldron, the robbers flee. The stupid takes the sack of nuts and shares it with the clever one who carries the gold. When that becomes too difficult, he shares too. They're buying sheep again.
Remarks
The text uses popular expressions: the stupid carries the food for the guardian "out on the trot", he stuffs "dumplings into the Klunsen". When the sheep don't follow, he becomes “hardworking”, she kills, “the Nösser, now no one is mucking.” The robbers say the sky is falling: “There's a drum coming!” As the final punch, the clever man complies Stupid - cf. Brother Saver and Brother Vertuer .
Bechstein notes: "According to oral tradition in the Saaltale." According to Hans-Jörg Uther, the source can not be directly verified. Compare Grimms Der Frieder and Katherlieschen .
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. 254-257, 295.
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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. 295.