Talk:Mattie the Goose-boy (poem)

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BetacommandBot 06:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The origin of the folk tale is not really unknown. The tale is so similar to the Akkadian tale of the Old Man of Nippur (Poor Man of Nippur), dated about 1500 BCE, that it has to be a wandering story having wandered from mouth to mouth for over 3000 years! Uttrediay (talk) 19:54, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, before making the connection, one would have to ascertain whether Mihály Fazekas could have been remodelling the folk tale after the Akkadian one, as Akkadian started being deciphered in 1767, 37 years before he wrote his poem. Uttrediay (talk) 20:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found this paper. I don't read Hungarian and I'm not sure whether it's peer-reviewed, but the last page is a summary in English. It says the Akkadian tale was excavated and translated 1951, which is more than a century after the publication of Matyi. I think it's safe to rule out Mihály being a secret achaeologist who can read Akkadian. The paper also mentions that similar folk tales can be found in various parts of Europe and in the Thousand and One Nights. C9mVio9JRy (talk) 18:34, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]