The Hare and the Hedgehog

The Hare and the Hedgehog
Cover of a low-saxon edition published 1855 with illustrations by Gustav Süs.
Folk tale
NameThe Hare and the Hedgehog
RegionGermany
Published inKinder- und Hausmärchen, by the Brothers Grimm

"The Hare and the Hedgehog" or "The race between the Hare and the Hedgehog" (Low Saxon: Dat Wettlopen twischen den Hasen un den Swinegel up de lütje Heide bi Buxtehude; German: Der Hase und der Igel) is a Low Saxon fable. It was published 1843 in the 5th edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm in Low Saxon (KHM 187) and in 1840 in Wilhelm Schröder's Hannoversches Volksblatt under the full title Ein plattdeutsches Volksmärchen. Dat Wettlopen twischen den Hasen un den Swinegel up de lütje Heide bi Buxtehude. Ludwig Bechstein also published it in German in his Deutsches Märchenbuch (1853).

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