Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm Selected Tales

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, David Luke (Editor)

Penguin Classics Selected Tales
Published In Britain By The Chaucer Press

David Luke, Gilbert McKay, Philip Schofield

422 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

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

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dark, violent, bizarre, nostalgic and sometimes fascinating; a meandering journey into the deep, menacing wood of the folktale.

[Maira Jawwad · Rating 2 out of 5]

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