Golden
Goldener is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Book of Fairy Tales at position 42 (1845 No. 46) and comes from Justinus Kerner's German Poet Forest , 1813.
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A poor boy, called “Goldener” because of his hair, is walking through the woods with his five brothers on their way home at night when a woman with a crystal spindle appears between the trees in the moonlight and sings: “The white finch , the golden rose, the queen in the bosom of the sea! ”When the thread breaks, the woman disappears.
The brothers scatter in shock. Goldener can no longer find his way home and only after several days meets a bird operator who teaches him his craft. When Goldener catches a white finch to test his skills, the bird caterer believes that Goldener is in league with the devil, kills the bird and chases Goldener away.
After three days wandering around in the forest, Goldener meets a gardener who teaches him. After a few days the gardener sends him into the forest so that Goldener brings him a rose bush, on which he wants to graft hybrid tea roses. When Goldener returns with a rose bush with beautiful gold-colored roses, the gardener is angry because he thinks that Goldener has made a pact with the devil, destroys the rose bush and drives out Goldener.
After three days, Goldener leaves the forest behind and reaches the sea, where he mounts a barge when the fishermen suddenly row out to sea. There, Goldener is supposed to cast the net when he pulls up a golden crown, the fishermen tell him that he is the new king of the country. A hundred years ago the old king had no successor and before his death had sunk his crown in the sea and appointed the one who could wrest the crown from the sea as his successor.
origin
Bechstein names the source, Justinus Kerner's Goldener. A child fairy tale in Deutscher Dichterwald , 1813. The plot is the same there. The three feathers and golden cockerels are similar in Bechstein's work , in Grimm's motifs in Der Eisenhans , and also in Prince Swan .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 202-207, 388.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 388.