Hansen's Trine

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Hansen's Trine is a fairy tale . In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, it was only in the 1st edition of 1812 in place 34 (KHM 34a).

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The lazy Trine eats and sleeps instead of going to work - until it is night and too late to work. Once her husband Hans the Sleeper cuts his skirt short. When she wakes up and wants to go to work, she sees the skirt and is unsure whether she is Trine at all. She goes home and asks if Trine is inside. The others think yes. Then she goes away happily and Hans is rid of her.

Origin and whereabouts

The fairy tale comes from Dortchen Wild . It corresponds to episodes from Die Kluge Else and Der Frieder und das Katherlieschen , which replace it from the 2nd edition, whereby it is described in the note on the former.

parody

In Janosch's parody, lazy Trine goes out in a cut off skirt, gets another man because it looks so nice, and Hans is rid of her.

Web links

Wikisource: Hansens Trine  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Janosch: Hansen's Trine. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 122–123.