Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful
Ferdinand the getrü and Ferdinand the ungetrü ( Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful ) is a fairy tale (ATU 531). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 126 (KHM 126) in Low German. Up to the 6th edition of Ferdinand the title getrü Ferdinand the un was ungetrü.
Content
A couple can not have children, as long as it is rich, only when it is poor. The father can not find a sponsor. As a beggar who baptizes it getrü Ferdinand the and a key leaves him with her mother to a castle on the heath volunteers. With seven years ago, when bragging the other children with the gifts of her godfather, he gets it. At fourteen, the castle is there. This is a mold. On his ride, he finds only a pen, he picks on call one voice, then a fish on the bank, which gives him for his rescue, a flute, which he can blow if he is in need. He is unfaithful with a Ferdinand the who can read thoughts, to the inn. A girl there procured him the post of royal pioneer. Since calls Ferdinand the Unfaithful, that it makes him the king's servants, to whom he persuades, Ferdinand the faithful must bring his lost love. Ferdinand the accuracy with which it complains to his horse, which he advises to let the king give a ship full of meat and a full bread to the island of the sleeping princess satisfy the giants and the birds and they bring home with their help. When he has to go a second time to bring their scriptures to him the pen falls into the water. The fish they get out of it. At the wedding him the king's daughter chops off his head and puts it on again. As it should then show it to her father that she does when she could no longer put it on, because they do not like him because he has no nose. Ferdinand the and the princess to get married. His faithful horse turns into a prince when he rides around with him three times.
Language
The tale is told in apparently paderbörnischem dialect, only the poem, with Ferdinand the Council on the horse the giants and the birds calmed down, on high German:
Interpretation
Hedwig von Beit indicated psychodynamic horse and doubles as opposing aspects of Ferenands shadows. The prince to the former is, in variants of the mysterious godfather himself, who may be God or Devil as a father figure, perhaps originally Odin. The mold, the divine animal, is in the dream castle on the moor, which is his spiritual kingdom. With spring, fish and inn 's involvement begins in the universally human. The intrigue Spinner influenced the king as secular rulers, making his passion only dangerous. Ferdinand the, instinctively by his horse, and approves giant birds bread, ie Reality to which soothes the inhibitions and veneers. The King, however, has no nose, that is, no instinct for the world of animation. Therefore, they can lose him his head, which also Ferdinand the ungetrü disappears and the good shadow can be upgraded to become human.
Variants
According to Walter Pape of sense in the recombination of designs seems to be. Often the Doppelgänger forces the hero to a water to Kleidertausch ( Aath 533: KHM 89), probably originally a form of exchange, the hero attracts the princess with List on a ship ( Aath 516: KHM 6), or in providing it with other objects ( Aath 673: KHM 17). Such tales from the godson of the King and the unfaithful companion come in France and eastern Europe, in Germany rare, which explains the slightly distorted version of the Grimms. You are a subtype to fairy tale type Aath 531 Ferdinand the Unfaithful, Ferdinand the faithful and. He turns to the tasks to Get Princess and is highly variable assigned to the Philippines, Africa and South America. These tales are obviously old. They go back to any written source and fit (after Liungmann ) most likely in Homeric -Mycenaean period. Medea dismembered a ram and rejuvenated him as Pelias ' daughters Pelias dismember it, she refuses.
Origin
Grimm's notes record from the Paderborn 's ( family of Haxthausen ). Compare bez. the faithful and unfaithful Sibich and Ermenrich of Dietrich von Bern, bez. of the circuit, the Jewish legend from the notes to KHM 62 The Queen Bee, bez. the red thread at the neck of the re- animate the word as Poor Heinrich ( see also KHM 129 The four skilful brothers ), bez. Search the godfather of the poor father KHM 44 The Grim Reaper, bez. the saving Arion's flute sounds. Make more etymological considerations horse ( see also KHM 89 The Goose Girl, KHM 136 Iron John ) and to the writings of the queen at. They note that even in vernacular tale poems are often like here highlighted by high German language.