Any links for the German fairytales recently found??

[nonnie]

http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/GIC/2012/03/19Fairytales.html

http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2012/03/new-fairy-tales-discovered-in-german-archive.phtml

http://www.worldnavigator.info/article/english_versions_of_500_newly_discovered_german_fairytales_in_the_works

I have been haunting the internet looking for translations of those German fairy tales but so far nothing is available beyond a few scattered stories. If anyone has links please post them here.

Nonnie

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[nonnie]

http://io9.com/5904138/trove-of-500-fairytales-discovered-in-germany-+-will-disney-option-the-turnip-princess

turnip princess… not sure about this one

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/04/a-brand-new-fairytale.html

King Golden Locks ??

😯 😆 😯

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[flower]

Hey I’m new 🙂
My english isn’t perfect, but maybe I can translate some fairytales for you?
Or at least write a summary. Tell me the tales name and I start.

[mia]

Flower, she’s talking about the Franz Xaver von Schönwerth fairy tales. Over a hundred of them were published by Erika Eichenseer. The book’s called Prinz Roßzwifl und andere Märchen.

NONNIE, I’ve got a free week next week. I’ll try to translate a few more for you. 😉 I already did the Winterküberl one (a variation of the Rumpelstilskin one). I’ll post it below again. I’m not a good writer, so the flow truly isn’t the best. ^^ I’ll try my best with the other stories.

Winterküberl
(Winter=winter and Küberl is simply a Bavarian last name from the region it’s from)

Once upon a time there lived a king who had a beautiful wife. The wife suddenly fell
ill. She got worse and finally died, because she couldn’t remember the name that would
have given her health.
During one time when the queen was still a child, she wandered through the thicket, got
separated from her group, climed a mountain and fell into a whole. She then came to a
cave where a mountain dwarf lived. He wanted to keep the child, but seeing that the little
girl was scared of him and cried to see her mother, he guided her to the forest edge. From
there she could see her home again. The mountain dwarf then told her: “Don’t forget
my name! As long as you remember it ,you’ll be healthy and prosperous and won’t die.
Woe betide you, should you forget! But also, you can’t tell anyone else, otherwise you’ll
fall and die.”
Once, the queen fell and because of that, she forgot the name and died. The king announced
that he would marry the woman who resembled his deceased wife the most.
Many tried, but in vain.
In one little town, however, lived a tailor’s daughter and she told her father: “I’ll go to see
the king. Maybe I’ll become his wife.” The father didn’t want her to go, but to no avail.
She went. While going through the forest she saw a dwarf jumping happily over a fire
and speaking:

“Burn, fire, burn,
that the queen won’t tell,
that I’m called Winterküberl.”

The tailor’s daughter made a mental note of that and when she came to the kind, she
truly resembled the deceased queen. Thus the tailor’s daughter became the new queen.
Later on, she found out why the old queen had to die. So, the tailor’s daughter remembered
what had happened in the forest, kept the name in mind and with that, luck,
health and life. She ruled many years happily and contend, even after her husband had
died.

The End

[flower]

Oh, I’m suprised, I never heard of this guy 😳
Are his storys just as famous as the Grimm/ Andersen storys?

[mia]

Nope. He’s quite a famous Bavarian, öh, folklorist (no clue, how you say that in English, Volkskundler). He collected and wrote down Bavarian stories and fairy tales. Two years ago, they found about 500 stories in the archives of an institues with his name … Forgot how it was called. 🙁

[flower]

In Once they didn’t use any of his storys ?!

[mia]

Not yet, nope. They have mostly concentrated on known fairy tales and children’s stories, Frederick and Kathryn aside.
There are just too many stories, ha ha. If we’re lucky, we’ll see some in future episodes/seasons. 🙂

[nonnie]

@mia wrote:

Nope. He’s quite a famous Bavarian, öh, folklorist (no clue, how you say that in English, Volkskundler). He collected and wrote down Bavarian stories and fairy tales. Two years ago, they found about 500 stories in the archives of an institutes with his name … Forgot how it was called. 🙁

I read several articles on this gentleman he wrote the fairy-tales as told in oral history, instead of dressing up the stories like the Grimm brothers did for publications. He was trying to save the stories from his region as an academic endeavor more then to profit from them.

Nonnie,

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[mia]

Exactly. Therefore they sometimes are quite short, not that best writeen and in some I wonder what purpose they had.

Did you already read The Beautiful Slave, NONNIE? If not, I’ll translate that one.

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