Beschrijving
The Land where No One Dies [F116]. (Including the previous Type 470*.) A young man seeks for a land where no one dies. On his way to the otherworld he meets animals and men who do things for which they need a very long time (e.g. to clear away a mountain grain by grain), but they are not immortal. Finally he reaches the land where no one dies and lives there together with a young woman.
When he longs for his home, the woman advises him against leaving. He insists on going, and she warns him not to touch the earth. He passes the people and animals which he had met on outward journey, but they have finished their work and died. Back home he meets a man with a carriage full of worn-cut shoes, and he gets off his horse to help the man. But it is death looking for him, and he dies.
When he longs for his home, the woman advises him against leaving. He insists on going, and she warns him not to touch the earth. He passes the people and animals which he had met on outward journey, but they have finished their work and died. Back home he meets a man with a carriage full of worn-cut shoes, and he gets off his horse to help the man. But it is death looking for him, and he dies.
Motief
F116
Commentaar
Documented in the Italian poem Trattato della superbia e morte di senso at the beginning of the 16th century.
Combinaties
400.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
470B
Subgenre
sprookje