Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:05:34 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Adapting Grimm's Fairy Tales...


Mathieu wrote:

>  Later in the story, the
>king looks for her, by himself, during 7 years (without eating no less),
>without even thinking to use his vast kingly resources to locate her.

But you know, those "kings" in the European folk tales didn't 
necessarily have vast resources.  The word "king" there just denotes 
a feudal lord.  The dominion of such a king could have been quite 
small, and he himself seriously impoverished.  All we know is that he 
owned some land and perhaps that he had least one serf.


-m
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