Master and servant (fairy tale)
Lord and servant is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 14, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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One winter night, the drinker Mac Daniel meets a man with a gold-trimmed hat and shoes with silver buckles, who takes him on for a drink for seven years and a day. Every night he has to fetch him two rushes from the fortfield, from which they say “borram! borram! borram! ” (become big) make horses. You slip through keyholes and visit all of Ireland's wine cellars. Finally the old man takes him to a wedding in Limerick near Carrigogunniel Castle, where he wants to steal the bride for his 1000th birthday. From the roof beam you watch how the pastor, busy with the suckling pig, forgets twice that the sneezing bride, God bless us! accept. The third time Mac Daniel calls, and his Master furiously pushes him down. The couple is married. Mac Daniel is having fun at the party.
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According to Grimm: Instead of rushes, z. B. Cabbage stalk before. Some examples will be retold and something about Carrigogunniel. The couple Darby Riley and Brigitte Runey, who dance Rinka, an Irish national dance in the text, are known from a folk song.
literature
- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 179-186, 262-264. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)