Draft:The White Dove (German fairy tale)
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The White Dove (German: Von dem Dummling) is a fairy tale (ATU Index 550). It was only included as the 64th tale in the Brothers Grimm's Grimms' Fairy Tales (Children's and Household Tales) in the first edition of 1812 together with The Queen Bee, The Three Feathers and The Golden Goose (Of the Fool). Later it was only included in the 57th tale with The Golden Bird, while the other three remained at positions 62, 63 and 64.
Story
[edit]Every year, the ripe pears disappear from the king's tree. The brothers keep watch one after the other for a year, but fall asleep on the last night until it is the simpleton's turn. He follows a white dove up a mountain into a rock and rescues a little gray man and a king's daughter.
Origin
[edit]According to his notes, Wilhelm Grimm heard the fairy tale from Margarete Marianne Wild in 1808. Compared to his manuscript from 1810, the printed version is linguistically improved. The note confirms the similarity to KHM 57, The Golden Bird, which is why it later only appears in the note to it.
Further reading
[edit]- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. Final edition with the original notes of the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all the fairy tales not published in all editions and proofs of origin, edited by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original notes, proofs of origin, afterword. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 111–112.
Heinz Rölleke (ed.): The oldest collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the original manuscript version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Cologny-Geneve 1975 (Fondation Martin Bodmer, Printed in Switzerland), pp. 92–95, 357–358. individual references
- Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook of the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 455–456.
External links
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- The white dove with picture
- [The White Dove read and interpreted by Kati Pfau] (YouTube)