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Q: Cinderella history ( No Answer,   0 Comments )
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Subject: Cinderella history
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature
Asked by: archae0pteryx-ga
List Price: $8.77
Posted: 18 Dec 2004 22:25 PST
Expires: 17 Jan 2005 22:25 PST
Question ID: 444553
Okay, it looks like my #443743 has tilted over on its side and is on
its way to the bottom.  That happens to me a lot; maybe someday I'll
post an official inquiry about that.  (I always figure they're too
hard, but maybe they're too boring.)

Meanwhile, I'm going to come at this one a different way.  I know the
Cinderella story has been around a long while in some form or another
and probably goes back to ninth-century China.  And I know there is
lots of source information, including this promising-looking site:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/FAQS/FAQS-Cinderella.htm

What I'd like to know, then, is what version of the tale we know as
Cinderella is likely to have been known in Flanders in 1300?  I'd like
to see an English translation of the tale that would have been
familiar in the Lowlands of the fourteenth century.  It must have been
established as authentic by 1350 at the latest.

For bonus points:

- Show me the text in medieval Flemish, with an English translation of
the same version.  The translation does not have to be high in
literary merit; it just has to tell me what the Flemish says.  So you
could answer this question by finding it in medieval Flemish and
giving me an adequate translation of your own, especially if you
happen to be Scriptor.

- I'd like an English translation of a French version that would have
been known in the same time period.  I don't need to see it in French.

Thank you,
Archae0pteryx
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