Thousandfurs

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

5 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

German 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.

Reviews

[Paige · Rating 3 out of 5]

It kinda reminded me of a few of their other tales. Didn't really seem all that original of a story.

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reminds me a bit of Cinderella!

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some may call Thousandfurs a Cinderella story but it is not! It is so unique and the heroine is so different from our beloved Cinderella.

There are some similarities, but Thousandfurs is worth its own leatherbound embossed volume in every fairy tale lover's shelf! Unfortunately, its a very difficult book to find. There is an illustrated version that is absolutely gorgeous, but again, rare.