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Deutsche Sagen

Zweiter Theil

by Jacob Grimm (Contributor), Wilhelm Grimm (Contributor), Herman Friedrich Grimm & Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: German, English
  • Content type: FictionPrimary source
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"Deutsche Sagen" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is a two-volume collection published in 1816 and 1818. This compilation presents 579 summaries of German folk tales and legends, drawing from both oral traditions and literary sources. The first volume features magical tales of dwarves, giants, ghostly apparitions, and the concerns of common people. The second volume shifts to historical legends, spanning from ancient Germanic times through the medieval period, blending folklore with scholarly documentation of cultural memory. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “folklore”, and 4 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the description, “Legends” in the description, “Tales” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Folklore”· via Internet Archive
    • “Legends”· via Internet Archive
    • “Tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Legends”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library

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Editions

Open Library reports 26 editions; 8 cataloged here.

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1816-01-01T00:00:00ZBerlin : In der Nicolaischen BuchhandlungGerman—Public digitized item

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1865-01-01T00:00:00ZBerlin : Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung (G. Parthey)German—Public digitized item

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1816-01-01T00:00:00ZBerlin, Nicolaische BuchhandlungGerman—Public digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: Indiana University
  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 26 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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