Table of Contents
0:00 Intro
3:10 Brothers Grimm
3:41 Little Briar Rose
7:42 A Gap in the Story
11:27 Charles Perrault
16:28 Sleeping Beauty in the Woods
23:17 Filling in the Gaps
27:56 Giambatista Basile
29:29 Content Warning
29:55 Sun, Moon and Talia,
34:36 The Worst One
37:08 Perceforest
38:42 Troylus and Zellandine
49:03 A Fascinating Variant
53:32 Core Components
54:08 Danäe
56:07 Deadalion
57:07 Tale of the Doomed Prince
1:01:24 Actually Cursed
1:02:30 Trail of Breadcrumbs
1:10:34 Modern Adaptation and Retelling
1:15:52 I’M BACK IN THE BUILDING AGAIN
1:20:38 Outro
1:24:07 Patron Names
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Sources
D. L. Ashliman was an invaluable resource for fairytale variants and the differences between the different editions of the Grimm’s versions, and the Perrault and Basile version. This video would have been impossible without him. His translations are freely available on his website:
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html
The battle of the ancients and the moderns by Conor Walton
A Perceforest Reader by Nigel Bryant
THE COMPLETE TALE OF TROYLUS AND ZELLANDINE FROM THE "PERCEFOREST" NOVEL: translation by Susan McNeill Cox
Persinette translated by Laura Christensen
THE PENTAMERONE, OR THE STORY OF STORIES, FUN FOR THE LITTLE ONES. TRANSLATED BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. 1850 second edition
This version is freely available on wikicommons
Stories from the Pentamerone by John Edward Taylor, selected and edited by E. F. Strange, illustrations by Warwick Goble, 1911
This version is freely available on the internet archive, but it’s also the most censored, removing the Cinderella murder and saying the children in Sun, Moon and Talia just wandered in “from I know not where”
The Literature of Ancient Egypt, An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry Third Edition by William Kelly Simpson.
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Music
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Local Forecast - Elevator by Kevin MacLeod
Nimue - The Lady of the Lake - Medieval Love ballad by JuliusH
Rose by kawaiiwork