The four artful brothers

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The four artful brothers is a fairy tale ( ATU 653). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition from 1819 at position 129 (KHM 129).

content

A poor father lets his four grown sons move out to learn a trade. They separate at a crossroads. Each is addressed by a man and trained one to be a thief, one to be a stargazer, one to be a hunter and one to be a tailor. After four years they show their father their art. Five eggs are spotted in the treetop, taken away from the bird, shot around the corner with one shot, sewn back together and placed in the nest. When the chicks hatch, they only have a red stripe on their necks. When the king's daughter is stolen, the stargazer, who sees her sitting on a rock by a dragon, requests a ship. The thief steals them from under the sleeping dragon. When he wakes up and follows, the hunter shoots him dead, but he falls on the ship. The tailor sews it back together. Before the king they disagree about who deserves the princess as a reward. Everyone gets half a empire.

origin

The Schwankmärchen is in the children's and house fairy tales from the 2nd edition from 1819 at position 129 (instead of The Lion and the Frog from 1815). Grimm's note notated from Paderbörnischen (probably from the von Haxthausen family ), cites KHM 124 The Three Brothers for comparison , although the content is different , as well as in Giambattista Basile's Pentameron V, 7 The Five Sons , in Mortini No. 80, in Straparola 7 , 5, in Hungarian by Stier p. 61 , in Russian by Dieterich No. 3. As a similar story, Grimms mention the fourth story of the parrot in the Persian Tuhti Nameh as a similar story and also mention Ssidi Kur and an African fairy tale from the collection of for similar subjects Kölle . Cf. on the vacillating thief KHM 68 De Gaudeif un sien Meester , KHM 192 Der Meisterdieb , on the red seam on the neck of the patched chicks KHM 126 Ferenand betrü und Ferenand undefe , on the kite in the lap of the king's daughter to be freed KHM 91 Dat Erdmänneken .

Wilhelm Grimm increasingly embellished the text with expressions that were already documented in literature: The end of the song (from 1819); you speak as you understand it (from 1837); did the wind blow you back to me? (from 1850); He certainly had the powder that shoots around the corner (from 1850); I have to praise you for the green clover (from 1850).

According to Hans-Jörg Uther, the material of the masterly journeymen comes from India and is documented in Europe from the 13th century. The oldest German version is in Eberhard Werner Happels novel The Hungarian War Novel .

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literature

  • Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 608-611. 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. Pp. 224–225, p. 494. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 279-281.
  • Kurt Ranke: Brothers: The four artful B. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen. Volume 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1979, pp. 903-912.
  • Elisabeth Blum: tests of skill. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 5. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1987, pp. 1131-1134.

Web links

Wikisource: The Four Artful Brothers  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kinder-_und_Haus-M%C3%A4rchen_Band_3_%281856%29/Anmeränke#129 Wikisource: Grimm's comment on the four artful brothers .
  2. ↑ Lothar Bluhm and Heinz Rölleke: “Popular speeches that I always listen to”. Fairy tale - proverb - saying. On the folk-poetic design of children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. New edition. S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-7776-0733-9 , pp. 133-134.
  3. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 279-281.