Jullanar of the Sea and her son, King Badr
Jullanar from the Sea and her son, King Badr is a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as Dschullanar vom Meer and her son, King Badr (night 230-271).
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The king has everything except a son until a trader brings him the most beautiful woman. For a year she doesn't say a word. Pregnant, she reveals to him that she is a sea princess who has lost her realm. Her brother Saih, mother and cousins visit her. Son Badr inherits his father's empire. When Saih mentions the beautiful Jawhara once, Badr falls in love with her immediately after hearing it. Saih has to accompany him into the sea, woos him for her hand, but her bad father rejects him, even wants to kill him and is overwhelmed. Badr and Jawhara happen to flee to the same island before the war. She turns him into a bird. A hunter brings it to his king, whose wife sees through the spell and cancels it. A storm drives Badr to the island of a sorceress who takes men and then turns them into animals. An old wizard helps him outsmart her and turn her into a mule in turn. Her mother buys the mule from him, he becomes a bird. Jullanar redeems him, he receives Jawhara as his wife.
classification
This time the fairy tale takes place in Khorasan in the Persian Empire . As in the previous The slave Anis al-Jalis and Nuraddin Ibn Chakan , the main character comes as a slave to the father of the later protagonist. Words from Solomon's signet ring or rings with the name of God protect the sea people from drowning. On the transformations cf. The story of the first old man , The story of the second mendicant monk . The first bird resembles a white stork (see The story of Kalif Storch ), the sorceress Kirke .
literature
- Claudia Ott (Ed.): A thousand and one nights. How it all started Based on the oldest Arabic manuscript in the edition by Muhsin Mahdi, first translated into German and appended by Claudia Ott. Title of the original Arabic edition: The Thousand And One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla). dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-14611-1 , pp. 551–615 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).
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