Princess mouse skin

Princess mouse skin is a fairy tale ( ATU 510B). In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, it was only in the 1st edition of 1812 in place 71 (KHM 71a).

content

A king wants to find out which of his daughters is most fond of him. Every daughter should therefore tell the king what her love can be compared with. The eldest then says that she loves him as much as the whole kingdom. The second claims that she loves him as much as any jewelery and precious stone in the world. But the youngest daughter says she loves him as much as salt. For this answer she is supposed to kill a servant of the king in the forest. He is loyal to her and offers her to flee with her. The daughter refuses and only asks for a dress made of mouse skin. With that she pretends to be a man and enters the service of the neighbor king. But if she takes off his boots, for example, he throws them at her head. When he later asks which country she comes from, she replies: “From the country where you don't throw people's boots on people's heads.” When a servant finds an expensive ring on her, she finally has to reveal herself. She steps in front of the king and takes off the mouse skin. When the king realizes her golden hair and her beauty, he wants to marry her. Her father also comes to the wedding, but he does not recognize her and only allows unsalted food to be served. Then he gets angry and says: “I would rather not live than eat such foods!” Then his daughter reveals herself and he realizes how she meant her affectionate expression. He asks her forgiveness and he prefers her to anything else.

origin

Wilhelm Grimm's handwriting from 1810 is not significantly different. The servant does not offer to go with him. There is a loophole as to the appearance of the ring. The final dialogue is shorter. According to the hand note, the fairy tale comes from Johanna Hassenpflug , but according to Heinz Rölleke it is more from the Wild family . Cf. KHM 179 The Goose Girl at the Fountain , KHM 65 Allerleirauh , Perraults Peau d'Âne . Cf. Aschenpüster with the whip in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales . It is related to the Slovak tales salt is more valuable than gold by Bozena Nemcova .

filming

2015: Die Salzprinzessin , Germany, fairy tale film of the 8th season from the ARD series Six in One Prank based on motifs from both the fairy tale Princess Mäusehaut and the fairy tale Salt is more valuable than gold by Božena Němcová .

parody

In Janosch's parody, the father puts the third daughter in the girls' boarding school and doesn't recognize her in her expensive outfit at her wedding.

literature

Brothers Grimm: 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. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 529.
Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 461-462.
Heinz Rölleke (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. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny-Geneve 1975, pp. 202-205, 373.

Web links

Wikisource: Princess Mouse Skin - Sources and full texts

Peau d'Âne on French Wikipedia

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 202-205, 373. Cologny-Geneve 1975. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland).
^ Brothers Grimm: 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. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 529; Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 461-462.
↑ Märchenlexikon.de to Lieb wie das Salz AaTh 923
↑ Janosch: Princess mouse skin. 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. 158-160.

[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. 202-205, 373. Cologny-Geneve 1975. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland).

[2] Brothers Grimm: 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. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 529; Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 461-462.

[3] Märchenlexikon.de to Lieb wie das Salz AaTh 923

[4] Janosch: Princess mouse skin. 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. 158-160.