Did the Brothers Grimm write or collect the fairy tales in their famous volume?
Both.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered original oral tales primarily from the growing German middle class in the early nineteenth century.
The tales they published, however, were substantially altered, with significant changes in characters and meaning.
The tales, therefore, were not simply oral tales set down in print.
Nor were they original literary creations, such as the tales penned by Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen.
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