Snap bag
Schnappsack is a medieval name for a bag or sack in which dry food could be carried when traveling. Landsknechte carried snap sacks for requisitioning food from the civilian population.
Linguistic
In Lower Saxony Snappsack , in Swedish Snappsäk , in English Snapsack , in French Canapsa . Probably a formation from Knappsack , as in English Knapsack or in Swedish Kappsäk and Baksäk from Bak, the back = backpack .
The term in literature
The term later appears in literary works by Christian Dietrich Grabbe , Christoph Martin Wieland (translation from Lukian von Samosata ), Heinrich Heine (translation from Miguel de Cervantes ), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (in Lienhard and Gertrud ), Otfried Preußler (in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz ) and others. In 1906 Emil Karl Blümml quotes a fairy tale from France with the title The Schnappsack.
In 1948 a Heinz Barth published his illustrated fairy tale Der Schnappsack.
Schnappsack is also the title of a picture book published in 1972 .
A children's play by Wolfgang Mennel is called Caution Schnappsack! .
One of Northern Bohemia derived folk song entitled Hans with leather knapsack.
Web links
- Description of the snap sack in Johann Georg Krünitz ' Oeconomischer Encyclopädie
- Schnappsack in Johann Christoph Adelung's dictionary
- Proverbs for the snap bag at Zeno.org
- Old Fritz and the Schnappsack. Text by Heinrich Pröhle at Wikisource
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adoration
- ^ Research in Google Books , carried out on December 14, 2010.
- ↑ Emil Karl Blümmel: purrs and slacks of the French peasant people. Leipzig 1906.
- ↑ Karl Barth: The Schnappsack. A fairy tale. Volk und Zeit-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1948.
- ^ Hans Stempel and Martin Ripkens, Dietlind Blech (illustrations): Schnappsack. Ellermann-Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7707-6093-X .
- ↑ Advertisement by the publisher ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 14, 2010.
- ↑ Announcement ( Memento of the original dated August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the luki * ju theater luzern, accessed on December 14, 2010.
- ↑ according to the German song portal . Retrieved December 14, 2010.
