The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was

by Jacob Grimm

Here goes a story about two brothers. The one was hard-working and smart while the other one was quite the opposite. He was so stupid that he even did not know what it meant to get scared or be afraid of something. A sexton offered to help him and tried to give the young boy the creeps. But it went all wrong. The sexton ended up with a broken leg. What happened? Will the young boy get himself out of the mess? What if you knew that one of the two brothers in the story was going to become king? Who would you bet on?

12 pages

Published September 30, 2020

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.

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[Arman · Rating 2 out of 5]

قصه‌های برادران گریم
قصه چهارم
داستان پسری که رفت تا ترس را یاد بگیرد

گویا در ویرایش اول کتاب برادران گریم که جک زایپس آنرا ترجمه کرده، این قصه‌ای یک صفحه‌ای است با عنوان "بولینگ خوب و کارت بازی کردن".
بجز ساختار عجیب داستان که احتمالاً به ناکامل بودن آن برمی‌گردد (کامل آن در ویراست‌های بعدی آمده)، خود حال و هوای داستان و روش‌هایی که پسر برای ترساندن خودش استفاده می‌کند هم عجیب و غریب و دارک هستند.