Showing posts with label Bearded Knights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bearded Knights. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Finding Thor in Fairy Tales

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Reading the Swiss Fairy Tale: The Phantom Rider The phantom in this Swiss fairy tale comes from a long line of bearded villains. Following...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Ringo Starr, Teutonic Knights and Peace in Time

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Grimm’s Saga No. 535: Andreas von Sangerwitz, Grand Master of Christburg 600 years ago (plus one week) a famous Teutonic knight broke wit...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Fairy Tale of Three Slumbering Knights

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Grimm’s Saga No. 298: The Three Tells From the wild mountain regions of Switzerland, a Tale of Three Slumbering Knights According to popu...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Reading the Fairy Tales of Knight Bluebeard and Knight Goldbeard

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Goldbeard Variations In the debate over the origin of Bluebeard , the identity of the knight has been variously attributed. Some see hi...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Fairy Tale of King Redbeard

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King Friedrich Redbeard Sleeps in Kyffhaeuser Mountain There are many legends circulating about this king. They say he is not really dead bu...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

German Fairy Tale of King Thrushbeard

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King Thrushbeard There once lived a king whose daughter was beautiful beyond measure. But the girl was so proud and arrogant that no su...
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Fairy Tale of Knight Goldbeard

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A Swiss Fairy Tale: know them by the color of the their beards. Knight Goldbeard Once a black horse appeared in the Visper Valley. On...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Fairy Tale of Knight Bluebeard

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Fairy Tale of Knight Bluebeard (Translated from the German Text of Ludwig Bechtstein) There once lived a powerful knight who had such eno...