Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

This earliest manuscript of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" contains a total of three cards. Among them, the common cards include one each of [Identification (N)] and [Detection (N)], and the third card is another one. New enhanced cards.

[Linguist: German (R): Being able to communicate with people in a foreign language and mastering the language from an academic perspective are two different things. Even for native speakers, mastering the native language from an academic perspective is only a very small number of people. things to do.

Strengthen card (one-time use). By consuming this card, you can master the knowledge about language and German national legends that the Brothers Grimm had. 】

After using this card, Liang En found that his mastery of German was at a higher level than before. At the same time, a lot of traditional German myths and legends including "Grimm's Fairy Tales" also appeared in his mind. story.

"This harvest is quite interesting." After recalling the new information that appeared in his mind, Liang En's face broke into a smile. For a scholar like him, mastering a new piece of knowledge is obviously something worth celebrating.

Because it took too long to check all the documents in the box, Liang En went directly to bed after harvesting the last three cards.

After breakfast the next morning, Liang En took out his mobile phone and began to try to find something about the existing early versions of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in order to make a simple valuation of the manuscript he found.

But when he started searching on the Internet, he found that he could not find anything related to "Grimm's Fairy Tales" on the Internet, and even the title of the book did not exist.

"Could it be that "Grimm's Fairy Tales" does not exist in this world?" Considering that he had discovered that there were indeed many differences between the two worlds before, Liang En quickly changed the direction of his search.

As a result, he discovered that "Grimm's Fairy Tales" really did not exist in this world, but the Brothers Grimm were not unknown people.

Perhaps because they did not organize fairy tales, the Brothers Grimm in this world completed the first edition of the German dictionary that was not completed in another world.

According to what I found online, this dictionary played a crucial role in the cohesion of the German nation itself, and even laid an important foundation for the establishment of the German nation-state.

On the other hand, Liang En also discovered that famous fairy tales like Snow White or Cinderella were also spread in this world, but they were obviously much rougher than the stories in "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in Liang En's mind.

But even so, these stories are considered to be part of the German national traditional fairy tales and excellent traditional culture, and are widely circulated among the German people.

"There is no "Grimm's Fairy Tales"?" After realizing this, Liang En sat on his seat and tapped the table with his fingers, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"It seems that I have some interesting things to do next, but before that, I still need to check some important information to confirm certain facts."

After making the decision, Liang En immediately bought a train ticket for the day to go to Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate. At the same time, he called Fan Meng and asked him to join him here.

"Did you find any treasure at the auction?" Fan Meng said while eating a fried chicken burger in a McDonald's fast food restaurant that night.

"Because you called in a hurry and didn't let me bring anything else, I only brought a few changes of clothes with me. If I want to dig, I may need to buy some additional tools."

"Don't worry, the work this time will be much easier than the previous times." Liang En smiled and patted Fan Meng on the shoulder. "This time our work is just to sit at the table and read a book."

After filling their stomachs, the two people went straight to the German State Archives in this city. If there is any place where you can find the most complete information about the Brothers Grimm, then the archives are naturally the best choice.

Under normal circumstances, many materials in the archives are not open to ordinary people. Fortunately, Liang En has made academic achievements, so he was lucky enough to obtain permission to have direct access to the most original materials.

Fan Meng's task was to find some of the other parts of the data that had been digitized and translated into English in the computer room outside when Liang En went to the internal storage of the archives to access the original materials.

Their goal this time is to find all the fairy tale-related records of the Brothers Grimm. To confirm how much information the Brothers Grimm in this world have collected on fairy tales.

"To be honest, I might as well be digging the ground to do this job." Fan Meng complained with a grimace on his face when he returned to the hotel after searching for information on the first day. "It's just too tedious to go through this pile of information."

"Who isn't tired?" Liang En also said with a wry smile, "Don't forget, compared to the English materials you read, the pile of German materials I read is the biggest."

Faced with the information that could only be queried manually, both Liang En and Fan Meng felt extremely bored.

Fortunately, both of them are very patient people, so with their hard work, pieces of trivial information were slowly pieced together, revealing the Brothers Grimm's collection of traditional German fairy tales in this world.

Five days later, Liang En and the others ended all search work. During these five days of searching, they found a total of more than 70 fairy tales recorded by the Brothers Grimm from various materials left by the Brothers Grimm.

If the same stories as the 53 stories that had appeared in the manuscript previously found by Liang En were excluded, they found a total of 95 German folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

"I didn't expect that such a great linguist would actually have such a childish side." Fan Meng showed an interesting expression while looking at the notebook containing the excerpts of all the contents he had found in the past few days.

"I have always thought that Germans should be relatively old-fashioned, especially those academics. Everyone should be as boring as stone."

"You have a stereotype." Liang En smiled and waved his hand, then said. "Although in my impression, many German scholars do appear to be old-fashioned, but not all of them are like this."

"But then again, for such famous scholars as the Brothers Grimm, it's always a strange feeling to find them collecting German fairy tales."

According to the information that Liang En and the others have found, the Brothers Grimm in this world should have had the idea of ​​sorting out traditional German fairy tales and made some preparations for this.

But judging from the letters in 1812, the Brothers Grimm made the decision to compile a German dictionary that year, so they planned to compile German fairy tales after the dictionary was completed.

The reason for making such a decision was that the Brothers Grimm believed that for the divided Germany at that time, a German dictionary that could facilitate everyone's communication would be conducive to the unification of the German nation.

But the Brothers Grimm obviously did not expect that the dictionary would consume their life's energy. When they completed the first dictionary, they were already old and had no energy to collect and organize fairy tales.