Russische Volksmärchen

Title

en_US Russische Volksmärchen

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US Original language: rus

en_US Gesammelt von Alexander N. Afanaszjew. Deutsch von Anna Meyer

Creator

en_US Afanasʹev, A.N.

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:04Z

en_US 2005-06

en_US 1906

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1906

Abstract

en_US Here is a book in wretched condition. Its condition is not surprising if one considers that it is a paperback book produced in the Austrio-Hungarian Empire in 1906! Though a hand has written 2 vols on the pre-title page, I see no indication of that in the book. Many of the book's pages are still uncut. Many are loose. Of the forty-three Volksmärchen offered here, many of the early exemplars show the presence of fable or even, in several cases, the identity of Märchen and fable. The first story, Die Füchsin und der Wolf (1), uses the favorite Renard theme of the fox who plays dead and steals fish by throwing them off the cart on the way home, but the story seems to extend well beyond that beginning point. Der kranke Löwe (17) is the standard Aesopic fable. Alte Dienste vergisst man (19) is a variation of the story of a man helping a beast and then being threatened by him. Here the beast is a wolf and the man has helped him by hiding him in his sack. The clever fox will get the wolf back into the sack to see how it happened but really to free the man. Füchsin und Krebs (28) is the old fable about the crab grabbing onto the fox's tale and so being able to win the race. Further offerings get around to Baba Jaga and Wassilissa. I am surprised not to find FS here.

Identifier

en_US 7366 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82636

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US C.W. Stern

en_US Vienna

Subject

en_US GR190.A25 1906

en_US Russian

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole