{"id":120,"date":"2011-07-29T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=120"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:03:23","slug":"who-the-hell-is-elfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Who the hell is Elfe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the English translation of the Brother Grimms&#8217; fairy tales there is one with the title &#8220;Clever Elfe&#8221;. I wondered what this was. Is this about an elf? But then, what about the spelling? Was this perhaps an older form of the spelling? And if an <em>elf <\/em>was meant, wouldn&#8217;t there be an article in the title? So I thought that it was more likely that <em>Elfe <\/em>was just a proper name. However, I had never heard of such a name in German, but then again, it might just be a name which has fallen from use. Reading the story, it became obvious that it was meant to be a proper name. Some time afterwards, having forgotten all about it, I came across the fairy tale in an article written in German, and here it was referred to as \u201cDie kluge Else\u201d. Then it dawned on me: The English translator must have read the German text in an older script which is not in use any longer and in which two different signs for &lt;s&gt; are used, depending on its position in the word. In this script, <em>Else <\/em>would look like <em>Elfe<\/em>, something like \u201cClever Else\u201d, the &lt;s&gt; somehow resembling an &lt;f&gt;, and that was how the new name was created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the English translation of the Brother Grimms&#8217; fairy tales there is one with the title &#8220;Clever Elfe&#8221;. I wondered what this was. Is this about an elf? But then, what about the spelling? Was this perhaps an older form &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,499,28,267],"tags":[500,502,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10758,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}