Mar
A March or Mare is in the original sense, a report or a story ; In contemporary language, the term is used disparagingly for modern sagas and other stories or ideas that have turned out to be wrong. According to the German dictionary , the latter use occurs as early as the 15th to 17th centuries, the diminutive form of fairy tales or " fairy tales " was also used to delimit a false story.
The term Mär has been considered obsolete since the end of the 17th century, but it is still used to denote apparently outdated or untrue stories.
The word Mär is known, among other things, from Martin Luther's Christmas carol Vom Himmel hoch , in which it is mentioned twice in the first stanza . There it is about the good tale (news) of the birth of Jesus Christ :
“Up from heaven, that's where I come from.
I'll bring you good new fairy tales, I bring
so much to the good fairy tale,
I want to sing and say about it. "
literature
- Mar, f. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885, Sp. 1615–1617 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Web links
- March In: Digital dictionary of the German language .
- Vocabulary portal of the University of Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ^ Mare, f. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885, Sp. 1623–1624 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Fairy tales, n. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885, Sp. 1618–1621 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Fairy tale, n. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885, Sp. 1658–1659 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).