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‖ märchen|ˈmɛːrçən|
Also Märchen.
[G., fairy-tale, f. MHG. merechyn short verse narrative, f. OHG. mārī, MHG. mære news, tale (f. OHG. mārī, MHG. mære famous, mere a.1) + the dim. suffix OHG. -chīn -kin.]
A folk-tale or story. Usu. const. as pl. Also attrib.
1871L. M. Alcott Good Wives x. 130 You and I will read these pleasant little Märchen together. 1885Athenæum 22 Aug. 230/2 The Punjaub tales..are, naturally, rather modern and civilized..more so than Servian and Romaic Märchen. 1902A. Lang in Folk-Lore XIII. 359 Mr. J. G. Frazer..starts from the idea so common in Märchen, of the person whose ‘soul’, ‘life’, or ‘strength’, is secretly hidden in an animal, plant, or other object. 1908Mod. Philol. V. 402 There is no doubt..that the story of the shadowy Anglian king Offa, blended with märchen elements, was well known in England in the time of Cynewulf. 1928W. W. Lawrence Beowulf & Epic Trad. 166 Study of märchen, both for their own sake and for the light that they throw upon sophisticated literature. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments viii. 515 Outside the apologoi the poet of the Odyssey prefers to eliminate elements of the märchen type. 1963Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 189 The French märchen-material. Ibid., Oriental märchen-motives. 1964C. S. Lewis Discarded Image vi. 135 The Gnomes are closer to the Dwarfs of märchen. |