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Dee L. Ashliman (born January 1, 1938), who writes professionally as D. L. Ashliman, is an American folklorist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Pittsburgh [1] and is considered to be a leading expert on folklore and fairytales. [2] He has published a number of works on the genre.
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The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife": the hero finds a maiden of supernatural origin (e.g., the swan maiden) or rescues a princess from an enchantment; either way, he marries her, but she disappears to another place, and he goes on a long quest after her.
Dummling, sent out with a biscuit cooked in the ashes of the hearth and soured beer, is generous with the little old man and is rewarded with a golden goose (the Fairy Gift). The goose has been discovered within the roots of the tree chosen by the little gray man and felled by Dummling.
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 432, "The Prince as Bird". [5] [6] Scholars Jack Zipes and D. L. Ashliman list the tale as a literary predecessor of the tale type. [7] [8] Philologist Gianfranco D'Aronco classified the tale as Italian type 432, The Bird Lover. [9]
A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") , with the title A csillagász, a lopó, a vadász meg a szabó ("The Astronomer, the Thief, the Huntsman and the Tailor"). The English Fairy Tales channel on YouTube did an adaptation. [15]
My Own Self, Me Aan Sel or Ainsel is a Northumbrian fairy tale collected by the folklorist Joseph Jacobs. A version of the tale appears in Scottish Folk Tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1137 (Self Did It), similar to the encounter between Odysseus and Polyphemus,. [1]