«A riddling tale» in German
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| ✒ Author | Brothers Grimm |
| 📖 Pages | 1 |
| ⏰ Reading time | 10 minutes |
| 💡 Originally published | 1815 |
| 🌏 Original language | German |
| 📌 Type | Fairy tale |
| 📌 Genres | Children's literature, Adventure, Parable |
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Drei Frauen waren in Blumen verwandelt, die auf dem Felde standen, doch deren eine durfte des Nachts in ihrem Hause sein. Da sprach sie auf eine Zeit zu ihrem Mann, als sich der Tag nahte und sie wiederum zu ihren Gespielen auf das Feld gehen und eine Blume werden mußte: "Wenn du heute vormittag kommst und mich abbrichst, werde ich erlöst und für immer bei dir bleiben," was dann auch geschah. Nun ist die Frage, wie sie ihr Mann erkannt habe, da die Blumen ganz gleich und ohne Unterschied waren?
Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in the field and become a flower again, she said to her husband: "If thou wilt come this afternoon and gather me, I shall be set free and henceforth stay with thee." And he did so. Now the question is, how did her husband know her, for the flowers were exactly alike, and without any difference?
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Antwort: "Dieweil sie die Nacht in ihrem Haus und nicht auf dem Feld war, fiel der Tau nicht auf sie wie auf die andern zwei, wobei sie der Mann erkannte."
Answer: "As she was at her home during the night and not in the field, no dew fell on her as it did on the others, and by this her husband knew her."
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