" The Fish and the Ring " is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs at the English Fairy Tales . This story has some parallels in the literature and folklore of different cultures.
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Synopsis
A baron who is a magician knows that his son is destined to marry a girl born to a poor peasant. He went to the farmer and, when he complained that he could not feed six children, offered to take the smallest. He threw it into the river, and he floated to the fisherman's house, and the fisherman raised it. She is beautiful, and one day when the baron is hunting, she sees him and his partner asking who he is going to get married. To give a horoscope, she asks when she was born, and she tells the story. He sent him to his brother, with a letter telling his brother to kill him. He fell among the robbers, who changed the letter to say he had to marry his son, and his brother held a wedding all at once.
Baron comes and learns this, and brings his daughter-in-law for a walk along the cliff. She begs for her life, and she does not force her in, but she throws a golden ring into the ocean and tells him that she should never show him or her son his face again without a ring. He went and worked in the kitchen. Baron came to dinner at the house, and he prepared the fish. He found a ring in it. The guests were so intrigued by the fish they wanted to see the cook, and he left with the ring. Baron realizes that he can not fight fate, and announces that he is his son's true bride and takes him back to his home, where he lives happily with her husband.
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Variations
Self-fulfilled prophecy
The main plot of this story follows a common folklore of a low-birthed child who is predicted to marry someone who is born high, usually a kingdom. Because of the actions taken to prevent this, marriage takes place. Other variants include Russia The Story of Three Beautiful Beggars, German Devil With Three Golden Hair, and King of India Who Will Be Stronger Of Destiny. It is not uncommon among these stories because a lowly child is a girl; most variants have a low birth boy and a much higher birth bride.
While such stories usually include attempts to kill children in infancy, letters ordering child deaths are changed to order marriages, and tasks that are difficult to impose on a child, the specificity of the ring is uncommon.
Restore ringing
One of the earliest sources or inspirations, could be the story of Greek Polycrates or Polykrates, the ruler of Samos. According to Herodotus, Polycrates made a covenant with the Egyptian Amassia, when Amasis told Polycrates to throw some of his most precious possessions, explaining that even he had to experience difficulties and sorrow, or his life would end in tragedy. Polycrates's, taking Amasis's advice throws away some of his belongings including his most precious emerald ring. The loss of the ring weighed on Polycrates; One day a fisherman brought a big fish as a tribute, and as was his habit, made the fish destroy. When the fish was opened, Polycrates was shocked and delighted to see his old emerald ring. [2]
Sanskrit drama of 'accountant', as written by K? Closed? Sa, also parallel. A king has fallen in love with? Accountant ?, Which he married and awarded the emerald ring, with his name engraved on it. However, when he returned to his capital, he forgot about? Accountant? until one day a fisherman was seen selling such a ring in the market and had been arrested. The fisherman told the king that he had found a ring in the belly of the fish. The king then remembers SakÃÆ'ºntala and they reunite.
Another early variation, could be the Talmudic story of the biblical Solomon, who found the seal ring in the same way. The story of a similar Talmud is the story of a wealthy and unreligious man who heard from an astrologer that all his world goods will one day belong to his neighbor, Joseph, a poor and religious man, sell all his wealth and buy the big diamond he attaches. to his turban. One day while trying to cheat the stars again, by leaving his old house he started a ship for a distant harbor. On the deck, the wind was blowing hard, carrying its turban and diamonds to the depths of the ocean. Shortly after this event, Joseph prepared his fish for cooking on the Sabbath, while inside the fish innards he saw the great diamonds, all that remained of the wealth of the rich.
Irish variations are found at
There are also two similar stories found in English literature. At Jocelyn's Life of St. Kentigern , King Rederech of Strathclyde discovers Queen Languueth's affair with a soldier, to whom he gives the ring. The king steals the ring from the sleeping soldier, and demands the queen produce the ring within three days or else he will face death. Languueth confessed his sins to St. Kentigern, who then ordered the messenger to go fishing at Clyde; The salmon is captured, removed, and the ring is found. The queen then produced a ring for the king, and escaped death.
A similar version is found in Elis Gruffudd's
Another connected story is North German folklore about The Three Gifts. One day, three wealthy students found a poor weaver and gave him a hundred dollars. Weavers hide money in a few laps; However, his wife sold it to a cloth and bone maker. The students returned to find the weaver poorer than before, and gave him another hundred dollars, this time they told him to be more careful; so the weavers hide it in a dust-tub; However, his wife sells a dust tub, losing money a second time. When the students returned for the third time, they angrily gave him a piece of lead saying they would be more stupid than if they gave him a third time. One day a fisherman came to the weaver's house, asking if he could use lead as a net load, promising the first big weavers he caught. The weavers agreed and the fishermen brought the fish. When dredging the fish, the weavers find a big rock that shines and sells it for a thousand dollars making it a rich man. There is a language that is exactly the same as the German story in the Arabic story, even though the man is a ropemaker who is not a weaver.
In Belgium there is a story about the foundation of the Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval. According to this, Mathilda's widow from Tuscany visited the site, when she lost her wedding ring in the spring, which made her very sad. As he prayed for the return of the ring, a trout appeared on the surface of the water with a ring in his mouth. He exclaimed, "Really this place is Val d'Or ", from which the name "Orval" comes from, and gratefully provides funds for the foundation of the monastery here. Arm of the monastery shows trout and ring. The spring still supplies water to the convent and its brewery.
References
External links
- Fish and Ring
- Herodotus in Polycrates
- Kentigern Life
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