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R. Th. Christiansen
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case it must depend on a personal judgement. I have placed them before the Russian tales. Further a variant in parenthesis means that it has not been accessible for me and a * that the version is cited from the abstracts in Bolte and Polivka’s commentaries.
To mark the content of the versions signs as follow have been used.
I. The Introduction.
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- The two acting persons quarrel, A 1 about food, A 2 about money etc., A 3 The scene is removed to the sea.
- The two persons lay a wager that: Right or Wrong (Lie or Truth) is the Reward of the World. B 1 Thanks or Blame is the Reward of the World, B 3 The object of the wager is any religious question.
- One of them is blinded (or mutilated). C 1 one of them is blind beforehand.
- This one is left behind. D 1 near a tree, D 2 in a pond, D 3 near the gallows, D 4 in a church, D 5 on the sea, D 6 near a river, D 7 as a beggar on the highroad, D 8 in a mill.
- The leading person leaves the other one.
- The two beggars.
- Somebody leaves home.
- Poor brother asks rich brother to give him some food.
- Boy serves at the court, a man belies him.
II–III. Who the meeting ones are and what they talk about.
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- Animals: A 1 birds, A 1 r ravens, A 1 k crows.
- Demon-like beings (Demons, witches) B 1 talk of their misdoings.