Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 200 The Grimm's Fairy Tales That Don't Exist

This earliest manuscript of "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" issued a total of three cards, among which the common cards are [Appraisal (N)] and [Detection (N)], and the third card is another New booster cards.

[Linguist: German (R): Being able to communicate in a foreign language and mastering the language from an academic point of view are two different things. Even for native speakers, mastering the native language from an academic point of view is only a very small number of people do things.

Strengthening card (one-time), consuming this card can allow oneself to master the knowledge about language and German national legends that the Brothers Grimm had mastered back then. 】

After using this card, Liang En found that his mastery of German was a level higher than before. At the same time, a lot of traditional German myths and myths including "Grimm's Fairy Tales" appeared in his mind. story.

"This harvest is quite interesting." After recalling the new information that appeared in his mind, Liang En had a smile on his face.For a scholar like him, mastering a new knowledge is obviously something to celebrate.

Because it took too long to check all the files in that box, Liang En went to sleep directly after harvesting the last three cards.

After breakfast the next morning, Liang En took out his mobile phone and began to try to find something about the existing early version of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", in order to make a simple valuation of the manuscript he found.

But when he started searching online, he found that there was nothing related to "Grimm's Fairy Tales" on the Internet, not even the title of the book.

"Could it be that "Grimm's Fairy Tales" doesn't exist in this world?" Considering that he had discovered many differences between the two worlds before, Liang En quickly changed the direction of his search.

As a result, he discovered that "Grimm's Fairy Tales" really does not exist in this world, but the Brothers Grimm are not unknown people.

Probably because the fairy tales were not sorted out, the Brothers Grimm in this world compiled the first edition of the German dictionary that was not finished in another world.

According to the statement found on the Internet, this dictionary played a vital role in the cohesion of the German nation itself, and even laid an important foundation for the establishment of the German nation-state.

On the other hand, Liang En also found that famous fairy tales like Snow White or Cinderella are also circulated in this world, but they are obviously much rougher than the stories in "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in Liang En's mind.

But even so, these stories are considered to be part of the traditional German fairy tales and excellent traditional culture, and are widely circulated among German folk.

"There's no "Grimm's Fairy Tales"?" Realizing this, Liang En sat on the seat and tapped his fingers on the table, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"It seems that I have some interesting things to do next, but before that, I still need to check some important information to confirm certain facts."

After making a decision, Liang En immediately bought a train ticket for the day to Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, and at the same time called Fan Meng to ask him to meet him here.

"Did you find any treasure in the auction?" Fan Meng said while eating a fried chicken burger in a McDonald's fast food restaurant that night.

"Because you called in a hurry and didn't ask me to bring other things, so I only brought a few changes of clothes with me. If I want to dig, I may need to buy some additional tools."

"Don't worry, the work this time is much easier than the previous few times." Liang En smiled and patted Fan Meng's shoulder and said. "This time our work is just sitting at the table and reading a book."

After filling their stomachs, the two headed straight to the German State Archives in the city.If there is one place to find the most complete information about the Brothers Grimm, the archives are the place to be.

Under normal circumstances, many materials in the archives would not be open to ordinary people. Fortunately, Liang En has made some achievements in academics, so he was lucky to obtain permission to directly access the most original materials.

And Fan Meng's task was to find some of the materials that had been digitized and translated into English in the computer room outside when Liang En went to the internal storage of the archives to access the original materials.

And they have only one goal this time, and that is to find all the records related to fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.To confirm how much information the Brothers Grimm of this world has collected on fairy tales.

"To be honest, I might as well dig the ground for this job." Fan Meng complained with a bitter face when he returned to the hotel after searching for information on the first day. "The work of checking this pile of data is really cumbersome."

"Who is not tired!" Liang En also smiled wryly and said, "Don't forget, compared to the English materials you read, the pile of German materials I read is the biggest."

Facing these information that can only be searched manually, both Liang En and Fan Meng feel extremely boring.

Fortunately, both of them are very patient people, so with their hard work, pieces of trivial information were slowly pieced together, revealing the collection of traditional German fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm in this world.

Five days later, Liang En and the others finished all the search work.During the five-day search, they found more than 70 fairy tales recorded by the Brothers Grimm from various materials left by the Brothers Grimm.

If excluding the same 53 stories that appeared in the manuscript Liang En found before, they found a total of 95 German folk tales collected by the brothers Grimm.

"I didn't expect such a great linguist to have such a childlike side." Fan Meng showed an expression of interest as he looked at the notebook where he had excerpted and found all the contents in the past few days.

"I always thought that Germans should be more rigid, especially those scholars. Everyone should be as boring as a stone."

"You are a stereotype." Liang En smiled and waved his hand, then said. "Although in my impression, many German scholars are indeed more rigid, but not all of them are like this."

"But then again, it's always a strange feeling for such famous scholars as the Brothers Grimm to find them collecting German fairy tales."

According to the information Liang En and the others have found, the Brothers Grimm in this world should have had the idea of ​​sorting out traditional German fairy tales, and made some preparations for this.

But judging from the letters in 1812, the Brothers Grimm made the decision to compile a German dictionary this year, so they planned to organize German fairy tales after the dictionary was compiled.

The reason for making such a decision was that the Brothers Grimm believed that for the divided Germany at that time, a German dictionary that facilitated communication could be conducive to the unification of the German nation.

But the Brothers Grimm obviously didn't expect that the dictionary would consume their energy all their lives, and when they finished writing the first dictionary, they were already old and had no energy to collect and organize fairy tales.

(End of this chapter)