![]() ![]() Witanowski's 2011-2013 The Reynard Cycle, a series of Low Fantasy adaptations featuring human beings rather than animals. Marc Legendre's Reynaert De Vos (2010): A Belgian comic book adaptation of the work.The 2005 animated film Renart the Fox ( Le Roman de Renart) from Luxembourg, also known in some markets as Renny the Fox, features the hero as being married with two children, stealing to provide a better life for his family, going on a quest for a treasure, and facing execution when he is framed for killing a henhouse full of chickens.The 1989 animated film Reynard the Fox ( Reineke Fuchs) from Germany.It has a Setting Update in modern-day Paris (as in, The '80s) and has the cast as fully anthro characters. The 1986 French animated series Moi Renart ("I, Reynard") from France.Shows him as a straight-up Villain Protagonist. Andre Norton's Rogue Reynard (1947): Written in very archaic English.Notably, it is one of the earliest known animated films, predating Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ladislas Starevich's Le Roman de Renard (1928): a French black-and-white stop-motion animated film based on the story with design elements based on classic Russian puppetry.It has gained classic status in the country for using regional and sub-regional dialects to depict the fox and his companions. ![]() Michel Rodange's Rénert the Fox (1872): a Luxembourgeois text, adapted from the Dutch original, which sets the story in Luxembourg.William Caxton's The Historie of Reynart the Foxe (1485): A text in medieval English, translated from the Dutch/Flemish version.Willem die Madoc Maecte's Van den vos Reynaerde (1260): Written in Dutch by a Flemish man from presumably Eastern Flanders (nowadays Belgium).Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would later base his poem Reineke Fuchs on this text. Heinrich der Glïchezäre's Reinhart Fuchs (1180): Written in German.Cloud's Le Roman de Renart (1174, sequel in 1179): Written in French. Nivardus' Ysengrinus (1148-1153): Written by a man from Gent, Flanders (nowadays in Belgium), but in Latin.We only list the full story adaptations here, not brief shout-outs, parodies or propaganda works. There have been several adaptations of the story throughout history. The feudal system and the power of the Corrupt Church are lampooned. The stories are interesting because of their satirical content. By the time everyone realizes they have been fooled again Reynard has already fled. Reynard murders the hare, chops his head off and puts it inside a bag he gives to Belyn with the message to bring it to the king. He asks Cuwart to come inside with him while Belyn waits outside. Cuwart the hare and Belyn the ram go along to his home. Reynard flees and claims to go on pilgrimage to Rome. When the king frees Reynard he will show where it is hidden. There the fox once again fools everybody by claiming that Isegrym the wolf, Bruun, Tybeert, Grimbeert and even Reynard's dad have plotted against the king and kept a treasure hidden from him of whom only Reynard knows the hiding place. The cat does get his revenge by biting off one of the priest's testicles.Įventually Reynard's cousin, Grimbeert, a badger, manages to bring Reynard before King Nobel. Reynard locks Tybeert inside and the noise alarms the priest, who beats Tybeert out. ![]() Tybeert the cat is also tricked by sending him to a chicken coop, owned by a local priest. Bruun the Bear is tricked by Reynard, who tells him there's honey inside a tree. ![]() He sends out one animal at the time to arrest Reynard and bring him to court, but all attempts go horribly wrong. In all variations of the story Reynard is depicted as a cunning fox who has engaged in so many criminal deeds that the Royal court of King Nobel the lion wants to bring him to justice. Reynard the Fox is a series of Northern/Western European medieval folklore tales about a Karmic Trickster fox named Reynard/Renart/Reineke/Reintje/Reynaert. Statue of Reynard in Hulst, the Netherlands. ![]()
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