Brain Dump Post

[femkes_follies]

I'm going to just file a few things here for future reference.

Interesting portrait. WHAT is she doing with her skirt?

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=SK-A-1985&lang=en



I think this one might date back to the transitional period just after Friesland became Christian. It certainly works hard to set the kindness and goodness of Christians at a contrast to the cruel pagans:

http://www.historyofholland.com/the-cat-and-the-cradle.html

There are a whole raft of tragic sea-based legends. Stavoren really did go from bustling metropolis to barely-there village after a sandbar barred it's harbor:

http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/017.html

A Database of Dutch Folktales. Hopefully I'll learn to use it!:

http://www.verhalenbank.nl/

A Dutch version of Karel and Eldegast (Charlemagne and the Elf King). I spotted an English translation somewhere. I'll have to go back and bookmark it.

http://cf.hum.uva.nl/dsp/ljc/elegast/

Ah, it's in here:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lr/lr09.htm

And Reynard the Fox in Middle Dutch, considered the first master work in Dutch literature:

http://www.dbnl.nl/tekst/_vos001vosr01_01/_vos001vosr01_01_0001.htm

There are also a number of variants on cities cursed by refusing to free trapped mermaids, Kerboults constructing carilons for the churches, gnomes, dwarves, and elves in general.

My fairy tale book might take a Dutch bent. *g*