# The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story Author: Gerould, Gordon Hall, 1877-1953 Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39408 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Grateful+Dead%3A+The+History+of+a+Folk+Story+Gerould&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary To Karl Simrock is due the honour of discovering the importance of The Grateful Dead for the student of literature and legend. In his little book, Der gute Gerhard und die dankbaren Todten, [1] he called attention to the theme as a theme, and treated it with a breadth of knowledge and a clearness of insight remarkable in an attempt to unravel for the first time the mixed strands of so wide-spread a tale. Using the Middle High German exemplary romance, Der gute Gerhard, as his point of departure, he examined seventeen other stories, all but two of which have the motive well preserved. [2] Unhappily, the versions which he found came from a limited section of Europe, most of them from German... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/4/index.md) - [xiv. 471-488, and in Comedias escogidas de los mejores ingenios de](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grateful-dead-the-history-of-a-folk-story-39408/chapters/1/index.md)