The three animal kings
The three animal kings ( Neapolitan original: Li tre ri animale ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 552 A). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the third story of the fourth day (IV, 3). Felix Liebrecht translated The Three Animal Brothers .
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A falcon, a stag and a dolphin covet the three daughters of the king, who finally has to give them to them because they devastate forest, field and bank. The queen gives them rings as identification marks and has a son who looks for them everywhere. The sisters recognize him when he reaches their high mountain, dense forest and sea island and shows his ring. They hide him at first, but his brothers-in-law give him a warm welcome and give him a feather, a hair and a fish scale to say goodbye. With this he calls her at a forest lake, where a dragon is holding a princess in a tower. They free them, kill the dragon and flood the tower so that it collapses. Her cursing in animal form is over and the reunion with women and parents is great.
Remarks
Rudolf Schenda mentions Italian variants in Gonzenbach No. 29 Von der Schöne Cardia , in Pitrès Sicilian and Tuscan collections No. 16 Li tri figghi obbidienti or No. 11 La bella del mondo , in Comparetti No. 20 La bella Fiorita , in Schenda's fairy tale from Tuscany No. 15 Die Vier Königskinder ( Die Märchen der Weltliteratur , 1996), also a Low German one in Siegfried Neumann's Mecklenburg Folk Tales from 1971 (No. 103 Die Tierschwäger ). The oldest German-language version is The Books of the Chronicle of the Three Sisters (No. 1) in Musäus' Folk Tale of the Germans from 1782, on which Grimm's The Three Sisters is based, cf. also the crystal ball . Von der Hagen apparently translated Basile's text for his stories and fairy tales from 1838, which Kletke refers to in Märchensaal , No. 3.
literature
- Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 321–328, 553–554, 604–605 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
Web links
- www.alaaddin.it: I tre re animali in the Neapolitan original and in Italian
- I tre re animali in Italian
- Gutenberg-DE: The three animal brothers in German translation (presumably after Felix Liebrecht)
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: Pictures by Josef Hegenbarth for The Three Animal Kings : [1] ; [2]
Individual evidence
- ^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 604-605 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).