Old mother frost

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Unknown Binding

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

[Pérez Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Fairy Tale version of Coraline (somehow, haha). I loved this one. It shows how if you do things by heart, you get a lot of good in your life. However, if you do things out of envy and interest, maybe you wouldn't have such a great reward.
Great lesson and awesome tale!