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Iron John
Eisenhans in the cage approached by a young prince
Folk tale
Name
Iron John
Aarne–Thompson grouping
ATU 502, "The Wild Man as a Helper"
Country
Germany
Published in
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Related
Georgic and Merlin
"Iron John" (AKA "Iron Hans" or "Der Eisenhans")[1] is a German fairy tale found in the collections of the Brothers Grimm, tale number 136, about an iron-skinned wild man and a prince. The original German title is Eisenhans, a compound of Eisen "iron" and Hans (like English John, a common short form of the personal name Johannes). It represents Aarne–Thompson type 502, "The wild man as a helper".[2][3]
Most people see the story as a parable about a boy maturing into adulthood. The story also became the basis for the book Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly which spawned the mythopoetic men's movement in the early 1990s.[4] The book spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.[5]
^Zipes, Jack (2000). "Irons Hans". The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 249. ISBN 0-19-860115-8.
^D.L. Ashliman (2020-01-14). "Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)". University of Pittsburgh.
^Aarne, Antti; Thompson, Stith. The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography. Folklore Fellows Communications FFC no. 184. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1961. pp. 169-170.
^Zipes, Jack (1992). "Spreading Myths about Fairy Tales: A Critical Commentary on Robert Bly's Iron John". New German Critique. 55 (55): 3–19. doi:10.2307/488286. JSTOR 488286.
^Richard A. Shweder (January 9, 1994). "What Do Men Want? A Reading List For the Male Identity Crisis". New York Times.
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