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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
Children's and Household Tales ( Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimm's Fairy Tales ( Grimms Märchen). The influence of the book was widespread. W. H. Auden praised it, during World War II, as one of the founding works of Western culture...
210 pages, Paperback
Published February 7, 2011
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Jacob Grimm
5,774 books2,277 followersGerman philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as
Grimm's Fairy Tales
(1812-1815).
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
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June 6, 2014
So, I read all the fairy tales when I was a kid and I seriously don't remember them being this "grim" (pardon the pun).
Of course, the children versions of these are much more tame and a lot of the gory details are left out, of course.
It's still very cool to read the "original" versions as an adult and really get a sense for these folk tales!
But if you're the kind of person that get upset at the amount of people George R.R. Martin kills off in his books, then don't read these!
I'll leave you with the example of the "The Death of the Little Hen" which end with: "...and then everyone was dead."
Of course, the children versions of these are much more tame and a lot of the gory details are left out, of course.
It's still very cool to read the "original" versions as an adult and really get a sense for these folk tales!
But if you're the kind of person that get upset at the amount of people George R.R. Martin kills off in his books, then don't read these!
I'll leave you with the example of the "The Death of the Little Hen" which end with: "...and then everyone was dead."
February 22, 2021
This was a really fun read. Seeing that the Tales are a couple pages long, you can put the book down when life gets c-c-crazy.
I am fascinated by the Brothers Grimm...they took the time and energy to write down their version of tales passed on through the generations...probably reflecting the region of the Grimm Brothers' origin. I thought that "Household" meant sanitized Tales? Believe me, some of the tales in this book were haunting, the way they packed a punch in a phrase or two.
From NatGeo:
"As philologists, collectors, researchers, and editors, the brothers helped establish the methodology of collecting and documenting folklore. Their pioneering, scientific approach changed the course of historical linguistics, setting a standard worthy of imitation."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
I am fascinated by the Brothers Grimm...they took the time and energy to write down their version of tales passed on through the generations...probably reflecting the region of the Grimm Brothers' origin. I thought that "Household" meant sanitized Tales? Believe me, some of the tales in this book were haunting, the way they packed a punch in a phrase or two.
From NatGeo:
"As philologists, collectors, researchers, and editors, the brothers helped establish the methodology of collecting and documenting folklore. Their pioneering, scientific approach changed the course of historical linguistics, setting a standard worthy of imitation."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
May 28, 2013
Glad to have read the originals, but more out of academic curiosity than anything else.
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