Tales of the Brothers Grimm

by Jacob Grimm

FAIRY TALES, HARDCOVER

326 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

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.

Reviews

[Vickie]

Interesting tales compared to Disney!! A bit gruesome, but these fairy tales weren't meant for children!

[Quinn]

a synchronicity brought this book to me and reading it over the last few months has been a real treat