Ninnillo and Nennella

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Ninnillo and Nennella ( Neapolitan original: Nennillo e Nennella ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 327A, 450). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the eighth story of the fifth day (V, 8).

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A widower's new wife riot out of hatred for his children, Ninnillo and Nennella. He drops the two of them with food in the forest and strews a trail of ash on them. Along this they return home at night, but his wife gets so angry that he abandons her again and leaves a trail of oats that a donkey eats. The children are wandering around and fleeing when a prince comes hunting. He finds Ninnillo hidden in a tree and has him trained as a precutter, while Nennella flees to the coast and is raised by pirates. It is destroyed by a hurricane, Nennella is swallowed by a magic fish in which she sees wonderful things. She sings to Ninnillo, who is sharpening his knives on a rock. At first he doesn't listen, but the prince lets him go, the siblings are united, the father is scolded for his stupidity and the stepmother is executed according to his own judgment.

Remarks

Cf. on the whale Jona 2,1  EU , in Basile IV, 8 The seven Täublein . Rudolf Schenda notices the structural similarity of the second part to Greek travel novels with the finding of separated lovers and mentions later Italian fairy tales. Walter Scherf finds the roles here confused, the adventure does not lead to marriage. Cf. Perrault's Der kleine Däumling , with Grimm Hansel and Gretel , on the tree hiding place brother and sister , on the whale the little lamb and fish and Carlo Collodis Pinocchio .

literature

  • Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 458-463, 567-568, 615-616. (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 615-616. (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  2. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39911-8 , pp. 902-903.