About “The Hare and the Hedgehog”
"The Hare and the Hedgehog" is a Low Saxon fable that was included in the fifth edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1843. It was also published earlier in 1840 in Wilhelm Schröder's Hannoversches Volksblatt under the title Ein plattdeutsches Volksmärchen. Dat Wettlopen twischen den Hasen un den Swinegel up de lütje Heide bi Buxtehude. The story was later published in German by Ludwig Bechstein in his Deutsches Märchenbuch in 1853. The fable is part of the traditional folk tale tradition and reflects regional storytelling from northern Germany. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1843
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