Spindle, shuttle and needle
Spindle, shuttle and needle is a fairy tale ( ATU 585). It is in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 5th edition of 1843 instead of 188 (KHM 188) and is based on Ludwig Aurbachers The Pathengeschenke in his book for the youth of the 1834th
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An orphan girl is piously raised by a spinner. After their death she lives alone and gives what she has left to others. A prince who is free comes to look at the richest and poorest, because he shouldn't take any poor ones and doesn't want any rich ones. He just looks at the rich and rides on. The orphan girl, when he looks in through the window, blushes, but continues to spin until he's gone. Yours is hot. She goes on spinning and sings “Spindel, Spindel, you go out, bring the suitor to my house.” Then the spindle jumps away and rolls to the prince, who follows her. The girl weaves and sings “Little boat, little boat, weave fine, bring the suitor in for me.” The little boat jumps in front of the door and weaves a precious carpet. The girl sews and sings "Needle, needle, sharp and fine, clean the house for the client." The needle jumps away from her and covers the room with a beautiful cloth. When the prince arrives, she just extends her hand and becomes his bride.
origin
At Aurbacher , the Pathengeschenke stands directly before the gloomy orphan story on which KHM 185 The Poor Boy in the Grave is based. Grimm's comment notes that spindles, shuttles and needles are devices with which the hardworking have to deal and which now show themselves to be grateful to the girl. Wilhelm Grimm worked out this fairy-tale protective function when the godmother said: “Dear daughter, I feel that my end is approaching, I will leave you the little house, in which you are protected from wind and weather, plus a spindle, shuttle and needle, so you can earn your bread ” (Template: Look, dear daughter, I leave you nothing but this empty house, but spindle, bobbin and needle ). He describes the leading spindle a little more elegantly, like an Ariadne thread , and designs the carpet to match with roses and lilies, stags and deer etc. (template: gold and silver). The girl in the simple dress glows in front of the prince like a rose in the bush (template: roses and lilies in the face ). He hardly made any action-relevant changes, although he rewrote every sentence. Spindle, shuttle and needle were kept in the treasury and held in great honor, but Aurbach's conclusion that only the needle was preserved and that princesses have received needle money since then did not apply . The verses are in the original: Spindle fine, spindle already, / Say hello to the king's son. ; Coil fine, coil already, / Escort me the prince. ; Needle fine, needle already, / feel the prince for me. Hans-Jörg Uther estimates that Aurbacher probably invented the fairy tale to advertise religiously motivated improvement in dealing with orphans. There are no literary precursors or aftereffects.
literature
- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke . Complete edition, 19th edition. Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf et al. 2002, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , pp. 768-770.
- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. With the original notes of the Brothers Grimm. Volume 3: Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue (= Universal Library 3193). With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Reprint, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 271, 512.
- Heinz Rölleke: Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of Grimm's fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented (= literature series literary studies. Vol. 35). 2nd, improved edition. WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , pp. 462-471, 580.
- Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook to the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin - Effect - Interpretation. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , p. 387.
Web links
- Spindle, shuttle and needle as mp3 audio book on LibriVox
- Zeno.org: Aurbacher's Die Pathengeschenken in the original text