The griffin

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The Griffin is a fairy tale ( ATU 610, 570, 513B, 461). In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, from the 3rd edition of 1837 onwards, it is in place 165 (KHM 165) in the Alemannic dialect . Otto Sutermeister took it over in 1869 in his children's and household tales from Switzerland as No. 28 Der Vogel Gryf .

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The king's only daughter is sick and, according to prophecy, she should eat apples healthily. Whoever brings her some should be allowed to marry her. A farmer sends his eldest son, then the second with beautiful red apples. On the way, she speaks to an iron man and asks what they are carrying. They answer "frog legs" and "pig bristles" , which is what it is when they show it to the king who chases them away. The youngest named stupid Hans absolutely wants to go, is honest with the male and heals the king's daughter with apples. The reluctant king demands a boat that is better on land than on water. While the brothers pretend to make wooden utensils, Hans is open to the male again and is successful. Now he has to tend a hundred rabbits without losing one. He also resists when the maid tries to borrow one. The king's daughter sends her to take one from him, but the little man gives Hans a pipe with which he takes it back. Finally the king demands a feather from the griffin . On the way, Hans sleeps in a lock where the key to the money box is missing and one where a cure for the sick daughter is being sought. A man carries him across the water and seeks release from his office. The Griffin's wife hides him under his bed. He tears three feathers out of the sleeper at night. His wife calms him down and elicits the answers from him: the key is in the wooden house, a toad has built a nest out of the hair of the sick, and the ferryman only has to park a passenger in the water. Hans receives riches for the answers. The king wants to see the Griffin too. The ferryman drowns him. Hans becomes king.

Origin and comparisons

The Brothers Grimm had the fairy tale by Hieronymus Hagenbuch and Friedrich Schmid about Wilhelm Wackernagel . They mention No. 13 as closely related in Müllenhoff and a Danish in Etlar p. 129. Ships on water and on land ( Schiefner p. 611 ) are perhaps the sun chariot .

The oppositely motivated plot combines elements from different types of fairy tales. Cf. KHM 29 The devil with the three golden hairs , KHM 125 The devil and his grandmother , KHM 57 The golden bird , KHM 75a Phoenix bird , KHM 64 The golden goose , KHM 97 The water of life , KHM 91 Dat meerkats . A text from Grimm's estate from 1840 contains only one similar rabbit episode. For the carrier across the water at the end of the world cf. Christophorus . Cf. in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron IV, 6 The three crowns , IV, 8 The seven pigeons , V, 9 The three lemons . See the hare keeper and the king's daughter in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales .

The conglomerate fairy tale is particularly known in Northern and Central Europe. Janet Lynn Sutherland notices an accumulation of medicinal and fertility-enhancing symbols, e.g. B. the frog legs of the brothers who may fail to recognize the true value of things.

Carl Gustav Jung mentions the fairy tale in his treatise On the Phenomenology of Spirit in Fairy Tales as an example that the old sage can also appear as a dwarf. By es chlis isigs manndle is probably to be understood as an iron man, not an ice man. The text was teeming with phonetic errors.

literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 694-700. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • 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. P. 256, pp. 505-506. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 342-346. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  • Sutherland, Janet Lynn: Fruits: The Healing F. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 5. pp. 443-447. Berlin, New York, 1987.
  • Dégh, Linda: Shepherd. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 6. pp. 558-563. Berlin, New York, 1990.
  • Bies, Werner: Phoenix. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 10. pp. 1021-1035. Berlin, New York, 2002.
  • Neumann, Siegfried: Ship on water and on land. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 11. pp. 1421-1427. Berlin, New York, 2004.
  • Scherf, Walter: The fairy tale dictionary. Second volume L – ZS 1277–1280. Munich, 1995. (Verlag CH Beck; ISBN 3-406-39911-8 )

Web links

Wikisource: The Griffin  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): Fairy tales from the estate of the Brothers Grimm. 5th improved and supplemented edition. Trier 2001. S. 45, 109. (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; ISBN 3-88476-471-3 )
  2. ↑ Jung, Carl Gustav: On the phenomenology of the spirit in fairy tales. In: CG Jung. Collected Works. Ninth volume. First half volume. Olten, 1976. pp. 238-239. (Walter-Verlag; ISBN 3-530-40797-6 )