The three brothers

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The three brothers is a fairy tale ( ATU 654). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 124 (KHM 124). An Estonian fairy tale with the same title tells the story of three brothers, the two older of whom were clever, bright and conceited and the youngest clumsy, quiet and good-natured.

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A father promises his house to the one of his three sons who makes the best masterpiece. The oldest becomes a blacksmith, the second barber and the third fencer. At home, one of them shears a beard off a rabbit while the other is running, the other tears off the horseshoes of a team and re-boots. But the third fights so quickly that he doesn't get wet in the rain and gets the house. The three brothers continue to live together in the father's house and remain in harmony until the grave.

origin

The Schwankmärchen has been included in Grimm's Children's and Household Tales since the second part of the first edition in 1815 (since no. 38) as no.124 (no longer in the small edition from 1833, because of its similarity to The Four Artful Brothers ). The note reads from the Schwalm area, but also heard in many other ways , for which they give some literature examples. According to Hans-Jörg Uther , Ferdinand Siebert drew attention to the text. Such tests of skill come from v. a. in stories of lies, these here identical in Philippe le Picard's collection (No. 1), similarly also in Johannes Gobi (No. 20). According to Kurt Ranke , the type of narrative widespread in Europe stems from the professional pride of medieval craft circles, even if sermon temples dismiss them as tales of lies.

literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 588-593. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. P. 218, P. 492. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 272-274. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  • Ranke, Kurt: Brothers: The agile B. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen. Volume 2. pp. 868-871. Berlin, New York, 1979.
  • Blum, Elisabeth: Tests of skill. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 5. pp. 1131-1134. Berlin, New York, 1987.

Web links

Wikisource: The Three Brothers  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 272-274. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  2. ^ Ranke, Kurt: Brothers: The agile B. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen. Volume 2. pp. 868-871. Berlin, New York, 1979.