Snow-White and Rose-Red

Snow-White and Rose-Red
Snow-White and Rose-Red by
Jessie Willcox Smith, 1911
Folk tale
NameSnow-White and Rose-Red
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 426 (The Two Girls, the Bear and the Dwarf)
RegionGermany
Published inKinder- und Hausmärchen, by the Brothers Grimm

"Snow-White and Rose-Red" (German: Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot) is a German fairy tale. The best-known version is the one collected by the Brothers Grimm in 1837 in the third edition of their collection Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 161).[1] It was first published by Wilhelm Grimm in 1827 in Wilhelm Hauff's Märchen-Almanach.[2] An older, somewhat shorter version, "The Ungrateful Dwarf", was written by Caroline Stahl (1776–1837). Indeed, that appears to be the oldest variant; no previous oral version is known, although several have been collected since its publication in 1818.[3] Oral versions are very limited regionally.[4] The tale is of Aarne-Thompson type 426 ("The Two Girls, the Bear, and the Dwarf").[1]

Despite the presence of one dwarf, this story is not related to the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Snow White" that provided the basis for the 1937 Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The modern German name of that heroine is Schneewittchen rather than Schneeweißchen. This story has little in common but the similar name of its fair-skinned girl.

  1. ^ a b Ashliman, D. L. (2020). "Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)". University of Pittsburgh.
  2. ^ "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot". Märchenatlas.de. 7 April 2010. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  3. ^ Zipes, Jack (2001). The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. W. W Norton. p. 772. ISBN 0-393-97636-X.
  4. ^ Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p. 100, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977.

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