This strikes me as a pity as Iron Henry’s loyalty, joy andĭevotion provide a counterweight to the princess’s unreliability and hostility To be fair, a lot of editors of fairy tale collectionsĭo the same. Naturally he discards the Iron Henry part of the story since it does Sexual relations and encourages young girls to overcome their natural distasteįor them. Tales were for children, reads this as a tale which teaches acceptance of Bettelheim, with his insistence that all fairy Interestingly about it, but alas I had to give my mother back her copy of From the Beast to the Blonde some timeĪgo so cannot check. I seem to remember that Marina Warner writes Those which tend to be grouped as ‘Animal Bridegroom Tales’, another beingīeauty and the Beast. (Charles Folkard, illustration for Grimm's Fairy Tales, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911 found here all the illustrations I have found of this tale make the frog look rather sweet and cuddly and this one is no exception, but I think it does give a flavour of the princess’s wilfulness) His tail, laid down and died.’ Cheerful stuff. There was a poem about him I had to learnĪs a child, I can’t remember anything except (roughly) the last line: ‘Wagged Odysseus’s faithful dog Argus, although admittedly Argus did actually die when Joy because his master has been delivered. He mistakes for the carriage breaking Faithful Henry explains that it’s theĬracking of the bands around his heart now that it is once more filling with As theĬarriage travels along, the king’s son hears three times a snapping sound, which Will carry the king’s son back to his kingdom with his new bride. The rear of a carriage drawn by eight white horses with ostrich plumes which With ‘a king’s son with beautiful, kind eyes’.įaithful Henry, the prince’s loyal servant, who appears at the end standing at For this display of temper, she is rewarded

The princess shouts ‘Now take your rest, you nasty frog’ and hurls him against I suppose the kiss is a moreĭecorous echo of that sexual implication. The frog and then he turns into the handsome prince. In which the princess has (reluctantly) to share her bed for three nights with This variation was introduced by earlyĮnglish translations of variants of the tale, Or the princess from keeping her promise, much as she tries to wriggle out of Wishing may be helpful: it doesn’t save the prince from enchantment as a frog Certainly there’s no indication in this story that Joyce Crick in the notes to my edition, was conventional and introducedīy the Grimms to the story. Wishing still helped’ is a wonderful first line but one which, according to

Splish, splash, splish, splash, up the marble stairs.

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