Prince Swan
Prince Swan is a fairy tale ( ATU 425). In the Brothers Grimm 's children's and house tales, it was only in the first edition of 1812 in place 59 (KHM 59a).
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In the woods, a girl encounters a swan with a tangle to unwind while he flies to her kingdom to become his bride. She holds out until evening, when the thread breaks on a thorn bush. She walks through night and wind to a little house. The old woman named Sun hides her from her husband, the ogre. When he does find her, she obtains a respite and sends the girl on in time with a spinning wheel. From the next, moon, she gets a spindle, from the third, star, a reel. On her advice, she appeases a dragon and a lion with bread and bacon and spins in front of the castle gate on the Glasberg, where her prince has already married. The queen grants her one night each for the spinning wheel, spindle and reel outside his bedroom, but gives him a sleeping draft so that he cannot hear her singing. The third time the girl asks the servants to give him something else. The king asks the queen whether they keep a found key or the new one. She has to go home to her answer, he marries the right one, and they live happily.
The girl's song goes three times:
- “Think the King Swan
- still to his promised bride Julian '?
- she went through sun, moon and star,
- by lions and by dragons:
- Doesn't King Swan want to wake up? "
origin
Wilhelm Grimm's surviving manuscript indicates Gretchen Wild 1807 as the origin . It still shows the fragmentary character of the beginning, when the girl suddenly meets the enchanted King Swan, is somewhat more detailed in the dialogues of the old women, but basically the same. This is followed by a fragment that corresponds to the episode at the Red Sea in KHM 88 The Singing Jumping Lion's Corner . The note on the first edition compares the three belts from fairy tales (Braunschweig, 1801). From the second edition onwards, Prinz Schwan only appears in the note on KHM 127 Der Eisenofen as a different story from Cassel , with reference to the similarly similar KHM 113 De Zwei Künigeskinner . See also on the ogre's wife KHM 29 , 40 , 125 , 165 , 73a , on the lion feeding KHM 93 , 97 , 126 , on the forgotten bride with spindle KHM 56 , 186 , 193 and 9 , 49 , 65 , on the key allegory KHM 67 .
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 220–222, 493. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 270-277, 385. Cologny-Geneve 1975. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland)
