Currently translating:An Austrian folk tale focusing on slaying a dragon
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Currently translating:
An Austrian folk tale focusing on slaying a dragon.
Instead of receiving a princess and half the kingdom as a reward, the slayer is promised a farmer's beautiful daughter, and the farm as an inheritance. Even narrative tropes have to move with the times...
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Currently translating:
An Austrian folk tale focusing on slaying a dragon.
Instead of receiving a princess and half the kingdom as a reward, the slayer is promised a farmer's beautiful daughter, and the farm as an inheritance. Even narrative tropes have to move with the times...
@juergen_hubert your project reminds me of Farmer Giles of Ham, which I read when I was only 9, so I may have forgotten some bits - but maybe (based on current events), all you need from a dragon-slaying is the fame and if you want the rest - a princess, a beautiful daughter, a kingdom or just a farm - you can acquire them. The true, cynical, modern-youth's learned reality.
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@juergen_hubert your project reminds me of Farmer Giles of Ham, which I read when I was only 9, so I may have forgotten some bits - but maybe (based on current events), all you need from a dragon-slaying is the fame and if you want the rest - a princess, a beautiful daughter, a kingdom or just a farm - you can acquire them. The true, cynical, modern-youth's learned reality.
Oh, old folk tales could be plenty cynical as well. Consider, for example, the vast amount of "treasure tales" where attaining base riches was the main goal of the protagonists.
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Currently translating:
An Austrian folk tale focusing on slaying a dragon.
Instead of receiving a princess and half the kingdom as a reward, the slayer is promised a farmer's beautiful daughter, and the farm as an inheritance. Even narrative tropes have to move with the times...
Lawrence Watt-Evans wattevans@bird.makeup wrote one of his Ethshar novels about a king offering rewards & marrying a princess for dragon slaying. The hero acquires a girlfriend along the way, so after slaying says, he'll take the rest of the reward, but no princess, thnx.
But it turns out the marriage isn't optional. The offer was less about getting rid of the dragon, it was about finding ostensibly worthy husbands for excess princesses.
Good thing polygamy is legal there.
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Lawrence Watt-Evans wattevans@bird.makeup wrote one of his Ethshar novels about a king offering rewards & marrying a princess for dragon slaying. The hero acquires a girlfriend along the way, so after slaying says, he'll take the rest of the reward, but no princess, thnx.
But it turns out the marriage isn't optional. The offer was less about getting rid of the dragon, it was about finding ostensibly worthy husbands for excess princesses.
Good thing polygamy is legal there.
That brings to mind that one German folk tale featuring pope-sanctioned bigamy...
