I had no idea that he played the bagpipes! My uncle plays the bagpipes to convince his chickens to go into their roost at night time... He might have even been wearing two colors while doing it.
Apparently, a slaver did visit Hamelin and make off with many of it's children under false pretenses. We can't be sure about the rats, or the means used to get the children away, but we had a stained glass window going up in 1300 in the Church of Hamelin depicting the event. (The window has since been destroyed.) According to the wikipedia references, the oldest surviving account of the Pied Piper is from the 1384 Hamelin town chronicles stating, "It is 100 years since our children left." No matter what the current fairy-tale may be, the theft of Hamelin's children was a historical event. For those who are interested in the story, you should really read the wikipedia page on the event. There have been a few different attempts at historical fiction based on the event (how it could have happened). What Happened in Hamelin is my favorite, although it includes the rats which appear do have been an addition to the story - and the first step in turning the history into fiction.
In the netherlands there used to be a tv show this story back in the seventies, mostly focussing on the adventures of the children after they were taken into the mountain. This is honestly the first time I heard what actually happened to the children in the original story.
if you're ever in michigan, there's a town here called frankenmuth, and it's basically a sort of german town, and the story of the pied piper is played from the clock tower, I think, every day, complete with statues on tracks. it's quite a sight.
To be fair in the middle ages, bagpipes were common all over europe. The big modern highland pipes people usually think of are just one particular (loud) variety :)
A French fairy, using a Scottish (but obviously not really) musical instrument, steals German children, and deposits them in Hungary. To quote Cell from Dragonball Z Abridged, "Where am I?"
This was great! Thank you really miss the Daels, you are so animated and just lovely all around! The second you said "transylvania" got my hopes up too XD
I remember once I was working building security while attending college - I was walking around the parking lot and saw what looked like a crow hopping across one of the lots. As I got closed I realised it was a rat! Huge!
I notice your technology ghost hasn't left you yet. Glad to see he is still with us. He really is an integral part of this channel now, so it would be devastating if he vanished from our lives
Currently working on a d&d quest inspired by this- a Bard who might or might not be responsible for the rats in the first place, hard to say (definitely was, but I won't confirm it to my players unless they hold me at gunpoint) does the thing, plays the pipes, sends the rats to drown themselves in the river, but when the village leader only offers him a fraction of the promised coin, the piper lays a curse on the village, turning all the children (and himself, incidentally) into wererats, and the PCs are gonna have to figure out how the hell they can lift the curse, because the Bard is so pissed off that he considers being turned into a wererat a fair cost for his revenge... and even if the PCs succeed, the village leader won't pay *them* the price he promised either.
Yknow, I gotta give it to the Leader. That's some semantic fine print that would make any devil proud. Love the pacing of the video Dael, from the asides to the dialogues. Thanks!
I swear, french... I imagine that there's this tiny french goblin that's like: "I will put all these letters in these words and then pretend they don't exist!" and then laughing evilly.
That's nothing compared to the Complete Bullshit that Pixies added to Gaelic. All three varieties of it. How do you pronounce Siobhan? Apparently, "Sha-vahn". Absolute madness, like only the Tuatha de Danaan can bring.
I didn't learn a version where the children's descendants were found in Transylvania. Best party is, speakers of various German dialects migrated to Transylvania between the 1300s and the early 1900s, so I had to check it out. Turns out some people do that version of the story ties in which those migrations! :D
My grandma is German (well, mostly), but I don't know how she feels about the Pied Piper of Hamelin. And, yes, as far as I am able to find, "pied" just means having two or more colors. (Did I wish you a Happy New Year? If not, Happy New Year.)
Garth Nix incorporated this story into his Keys to the Kingdom books. The Pied Piper was actually the third son of... well, God, basically, though it was more the son of a physical manifestation of a Goddess and her male half...? That entire thing was kind of wacky. But when Hamel stiffed him his payment he took the children to the House, an extra-dimensional location whose denizens work to observe, record, and store the history of the universe. The children, known as the Piper's Children, became immortal there and were put to work doing menial labor. Suzie Turquoise-Blue is one of them and a main character in the story.
when u did the one with the egg and the three sisters i thought of another story i thought u could do. i don't know the name but its the one with like the pig eye and the thieves hand. if u understand what i am saying i would appreciate it if u did that one. i love ur vids and i love u, keep up the good work
In Australia, a florin was worth what is now, post-decimalization, 20 cents. In other words, two shillings. Originally the florin was the coin of the republic of Florence, and was widely used throughout Europe because it was so reliable. The gros was the French equivalent to the shilling (1/20 of a livre (pound)). Florins were gold and gros silver, so I won't try to figure out how many gros were in a florin.
@@imkluu So, 999,999 rat heads, at 1 gros each, would have been like 50k pounds of silver (25 tons american); which, at today's price ($505.41 US). is like 11.5 million dollars (US), or nearly 16 million AUS, Reasonably close to the original 10 million estimate. Yay math!
In my imagination, in a comedy of errors and tragedy, Clumsy Joe accidentally killed everyone in increasingly unlikely yet clumsy mishaps. Only his two friends remained, who covered for him. The merchants merely ran into some Transylvanian Saxons, who used to live in one of the many towns named Hamlet. The Piper was the fall guy, because Clumsy Joe kept falling down.
Yay!!! You uploaded a video for my birthday and did a French accent (we're going to have to work on your bagpipes though ;p). Love the Pied Piper story. And I'm blaming the English for changing it from bagpipes. Though honestly, who would believe you could play something so beautiful to entrance kids to leave with you on a bagpipe?
I looooove me some Pied Piper. I've already made a DnD character based on him. /Now if only I had someone to run a game for me isntead of running games myself/
Why would the parents not take their children to church? But the biggest shock is the Piper who is french played the bagpipes in Germany, talk about multicultural.
;-) Vor meinem geistigen Auge sehe ich mittelalterlich gekleidete Hamelner in mittelalterlichen Hamelner Häusern, die sich Sandwiches vor ihren Kühlschränken zu machen versuchen. Danke für dieses Bild.
I don't think I've ever been this early to a video before. As always, wonderful video Dael. I've always loved mythology and fairy tales and your channel is a massive help for me in finding new stories and hearing great new tellings of stories I already knew. I don't remember how I found you channel, but thank God I did!
6:42 Is that a Techno Synth bagpipe? All the more reason they didn't trust him. 13:16 Maybe a different village that didn't pay had their children turned into Vampires? This wasn't the first time...
They probably tried. Except the rats kept eating the rat corpses before the people could sink their teeth in. And maybe the rats were full of plague, I don't know.
The groat is the traditional name of a long-defunct English and Irish silver coin worth four pence The Florentine florin was a coin struck from 1252 to 1533 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard during that time. It had 54 grains of nominally pure or 'fine' gold (3.5368 grams, 0.1125 troy ounce)[1]
I now know one word of French. "No". You must be the most entertaining Dungeon Master, the way you tell stories. I feel like this is sort of a followup for those who wanted a Goblin Vampire Death Cult Trap.
Just to inform you... The town is called Hameln not Hamel Kid of personal, my family is from there XP Otherwise, very good video, although I’m used to the more traditional version of the story XP The story come from around 1280 something when a bunch of kids went missing, and there is a play in Hameln every year. Also, there are little bronze rats inlaid in the street, following the path he supposedly took. I think the original version states, that one kid was left behind, because it was deaf and so it wasn’t enchanted by the music. When they found themselves in the cave, there was a lot of candy and toys and they just stayed there.
Unrelated to the actual video beyond the first and last few seconds, but if you get any more mermaid-themed blades, we'll have to declare you the Vax'ildan of mer-blades. Mer-dagger-dagger-dagger.
What? The “Piper” part of the “Pied Piper” refers to bagpipes! Mind ... blown! ... I’m a graybeard now, and I never knew that. Thank you for rectifying my “gross” deficiency of knowledge. By zee vay, I vould say zee Pied Pipe-air turned zee “hydra-rats” into “hydro-rats,” no? Okay, okay, my French accent isn’t any better, and my sense of humor may be worse, haha. Merci beaucoup to Madmoiselle Dael for another tale that is as tasty as an omelette du fromage! Gah, gack, agh! What happened? He spoke French! (I doubt anyone will get that Steve Martin reference, but I did say I’m a graybeard. Oh well, c’est la vie!)
As normal as French can be haha ... Brilliant! Half of my countrymen speak French and oh boy do we love taking the piss out of them every once in a while.
Huh. The last UA-cam video I watched featured Kyle Hill (of 'Because Science') doing a bad Australian accent. Then this video involved an Australian doing a (charmingly) bad French accent. I guess the next video I watch should be a French person doing a bad American accent, and then the circle will be complete.
I incorporated this story into my D&D setting as the origin of the elves. Just a bunch of kids led into the fey wilds by some faerie bard.
That's pretty damn legit
@@MonarchsFactory and one of the coolest ideas I've come across in a long time
I didn't see anything wrong with the rat problem at first.
But then you said they chew with their mouths open and I just about lost it
I had no idea that he played the bagpipes! My uncle plays the bagpipes to convince his chickens to go into their roost at night time... He might have even been wearing two colors while doing it.
Dear god, I forgot how amazing the fairy Dale format for stories is
Clumsy Joe was the best part. I totally was not ready for that.
Apparently, a slaver did visit Hamelin and make off with many of it's children under false pretenses. We can't be sure about the rats, or the means used to get the children away, but we had a stained glass window going up in 1300 in the Church of Hamelin depicting the event. (The window has since been destroyed.) According to the wikipedia references, the oldest surviving account of the Pied Piper is from the 1384 Hamelin town chronicles stating, "It is 100 years since our children left." No matter what the current fairy-tale may be, the theft of Hamelin's children was a historical event.
For those who are interested in the story, you should really read the wikipedia page on the event. There have been a few different attempts at historical fiction based on the event (how it could have happened). What Happened in Hamelin is my favorite, although it includes the rats which appear do have been an addition to the story - and the first step in turning the history into fiction.
In the netherlands there used to be a tv show this story back in the seventies, mostly focussing on the adventures of the children after they were taken into the mountain. This is honestly the first time I heard what actually happened to the children in the original story.
Well told! Back in the 80's I played the Piper in the school play. I realize now I should have held out for a set of bagpipes!
if you're ever in michigan, there's a town here called frankenmuth, and it's basically a sort of german town, and the story of the pied piper is played from the clock tower, I think, every day, complete with statues on tracks. it's quite a sight.
Bagpipes... the Frenchist of instruments
It's called the _cornemuse._
Wasn't there that random scottish town in medieval France at one point because history is weird like that?
To be fair in the middle ages, bagpipes were common all over europe. The big modern highland pipes people usually think of are just one particular (loud) variety :)
A French fairy, using a Scottish (but obviously not really) musical instrument, steals German children, and deposits them in Hungary.
To quote Cell from Dragonball Z Abridged, "Where am I?"
This was great! Thank you really miss the Daels, you are so animated and just lovely all around! The second you said "transylvania" got my hopes up too XD
Done with a Colville stream for a nice soothing Faerie Dael to lull me into a false sense of security so I can sleep... Before the rats eat me alive.
The version my father told was set in northern China and the piper was from his family background of Mongol merchants.
So what you're saying is... Bards OP
Never trust a bard.
This town sounds like the town I live in. Rats everywhere!!!
I remember once I was working building security while attending college - I was walking around the parking lot and saw what looked like a crow hopping across one of the lots. As I got closed I realised it was a rat! Huge!
I notice your technology ghost hasn't left you yet. Glad to see he is still with us. He really is an integral part of this channel now, so it would be devastating if he vanished from our lives
Phantom freaking Dennis
Currently working on a d&d quest inspired by this- a Bard who might or might not be responsible for the rats in the first place, hard to say (definitely was, but I won't confirm it to my players unless they hold me at gunpoint) does the thing, plays the pipes, sends the rats to drown themselves in the river, but when the village leader only offers him a fraction of the promised coin, the piper lays a curse on the village, turning all the children (and himself, incidentally) into wererats, and the PCs are gonna have to figure out how the hell they can lift the curse, because the Bard is so pissed off that he considers being turned into a wererat a fair cost for his revenge... and even if the PCs succeed, the village leader won't pay *them* the price he promised either.
Pied: having two or more different colors
A florin (floremtine coin of 54 grains of fine gold) was approximately worth anywhere between 140USD and 1000USD depending on where it was used.
Yknow, I gotta give it to the Leader. That's some semantic fine print that would make any devil proud. Love the pacing of the video Dael, from the asides to the dialogues. Thanks!
Ahmed Al Awadhi Honestly, he'd have been better off using it to renegotiate to a still ludicrous but still payable/ more fitting sum
turning your back on the church is a sign of honour in you and dishonour in the church. i turned my back on the church and would do it again.
Your french guy faces was my favorite part!
I’m only liking this video for the impeccable French accent (and the awesome story ofc)
"Qui vive verra, le voilà, le preneur de rats!" I like this version of the ending, some of the others are rather grim(m).
I swear, french... I imagine that there's this tiny french goblin that's like: "I will put all these letters in these words and then pretend they don't exist!" and then laughing evilly.
I am french and I can confirm, we are all goblins
@@redcaptain2082 I knew it!
I think the same goblins put the extra letters in the names of cities in Massachusetts USA. Like Leominster (Pronounced Lester?)
@@ctberchem7303 These goblins are causing confusion all over the world! Damn you goblins!
That's nothing compared to the Complete Bullshit that Pixies added to Gaelic. All three varieties of it.
How do you pronounce Siobhan? Apparently, "Sha-vahn". Absolute madness, like only the Tuatha de Danaan can bring.
Ahh missed these :) Reminded me how I always thought it odd the nations in the Princess bride where named after currency?
Can’t believe I missed this video so awesome
2019 is going to be a good one
I forgot how much i missed these! Moral of the story: always pay your workers.
Yes!!! missed these types of Awesome videos from you =)
I didn't learn a version where the children's descendants were found in Transylvania. Best party is, speakers of various German dialects migrated to Transylvania between the 1300s and the early 1900s, so I had to check it out. Turns out some people do that version of the story ties in which those migrations! :D
I prefer bagpipe piper to regular pipe piper significantly.
Yay finally a Faerie Dael :D
Lol, a gross is a dozen dozen, or 144 coins. A gross a head is 144 coins per rat. That is extortion.
Groat, not gross.
My grandma is German (well, mostly), but I don't know how she feels about the Pied Piper of Hamelin. And, yes, as far as I am able to find, "pied" just means having two or more colors.
(Did I wish you a Happy New Year? If not, Happy New Year.)
If these people had been Scandinavian, they wouldn't have done the "head" pun in a contract.
I was hoping for vampire children there too
Apparently pied roots back to magpies being two colours, black and white
0:01 same
Hooray for Faerie Daels! Your story-telling style is so much fun. :)
Yay a Faerie Dael!!!
what the france part or that the rats a realy big is new for me but fun fact there a some statures of that in the town :D
Garth Nix incorporated this story into his Keys to the Kingdom books. The Pied Piper was actually the third son of... well, God, basically, though it was more the son of a physical manifestation of a Goddess and her male half...? That entire thing was kind of wacky.
But when Hamel stiffed him his payment he took the children to the House, an extra-dimensional location whose denizens work to observe, record, and store the history of the universe. The children, known as the Piper's Children, became immortal there and were put to work doing menial labor. Suzie Turquoise-Blue is one of them and a main character in the story.
A new video from Dael!? And it's a Faerie Dael!? Truly the UA-cam gods have blessed me on this day!
(Oh who am I kidding? It's all you Dael. Thanks.)
"Knives!
when u did the one with the egg and the three sisters i thought of another story i thought u could do. i don't know the name but its the one with like the pig eye and the thieves hand. if u understand what i am saying i would appreciate it if u did that one. i love ur vids and i love u, keep up the good work
You're gonna keep up with the knifes until the next pumpkin comes around, will you?
In Australia, a florin was worth what is now, post-decimalization, 20 cents. In other words, two shillings.
Originally the florin was the coin of the republic of Florence, and was widely used throughout Europe because it was so reliable.
The gros was the French equivalent to the shilling (1/20 of a livre (pound)).
Florins were gold and gros silver, so I won't try to figure out how many gros were in a florin.
A Florin was worth 2 Gros. A Florin was worth 1/10th of a pound of silver while a Gros was worth 1/20th of a pound of silver.
1 florin = 1 shibble dibble
@@imkluu So, 999,999 rat heads, at 1 gros each, would have been like 50k pounds of silver (25 tons american); which, at today's price ($505.41 US). is like 11.5 million dollars (US), or nearly 16 million AUS, Reasonably close to the original 10 million estimate. Yay math!
In my imagination, in a comedy of errors and tragedy, Clumsy Joe accidentally killed everyone in increasingly unlikely yet clumsy mishaps. Only his two friends remained, who covered for him. The merchants merely ran into some Transylvanian Saxons, who used to live in one of the many towns named Hamlet. The Piper was the fall guy, because Clumsy Joe kept falling down.
Yay!!! You uploaded a video for my birthday and did a French accent (we're going to have to work on your bagpipes though ;p). Love the Pied Piper story. And I'm blaming the English for changing it from bagpipes. Though honestly, who would believe you could play something so beautiful to entrance kids to leave with you on a bagpipe?
I looooove me some Pied Piper. I've already made a DnD character based on him. /Now if only I had someone to run a game for me isntead of running games myself/
7:10 I looked it up some time ago, and iirc, pied means multi-coloured, so technically two colours are fine.
Why would the parents not take their children to church? But the biggest shock is the Piper who is french played the bagpipes in Germany, talk about multicultural.
;-) Vor meinem geistigen Auge sehe ich mittelalterlich gekleidete Hamelner in mittelalterlichen Hamelner Häusern, die sich Sandwiches vor ihren Kühlschränken zu machen versuchen. Danke für dieses Bild.
I don't think I've ever been this early to a video before. As always, wonderful video Dael. I've always loved mythology and fairy tales and your channel is a massive help for me in finding new stories and hearing great new tellings of stories I already knew. I don't remember how I found you channel, but thank God I did!
6:42 Is that a Techno Synth bagpipe? All the more reason they didn't trust him.
13:16 Maybe a different village that didn't pay had their children turned into Vampires? This wasn't the first time...
At first I thought this had something to do with Matt Colville' Rat catcher books XD I was hooked anyway tho. Very good content :)
Huh, I always thought the moral of the story was that you should always pay your musicians properly.
Believe me I am not guilty, it was the rats in the walls.
A butter sandwich? I’ve made my dinner plans.
If the towns people were hungry; why did they not just eat the rats?
Two birds! They should've made you head of the town council
They probably tried. Except the rats kept eating the rat corpses before the people could sink their teeth in.
And maybe the rats were full of plague, I don't know.
The groat is the traditional name of a long-defunct English and Irish silver coin worth four pence
The Florentine florin was a coin struck from 1252 to 1533 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard during that time. It had 54 grains of nominally pure or 'fine' gold (3.5368 grams, 0.1125 troy ounce)[1]
Essentially a nickle a rat. (US currency when it was worth something)
990,999 rats
Appx 2500 $20 gold pieces.
Which would have bankrupted most towns.
The Groat and Florin were coins that were minted at the same actual metal content for a very long time.
next dnd vid? those got me hooked.
I was telling this story 2 days ago. It's funny that it was the story you picked. Lol
Based on quick and dirty calculations 1,000,000 Florins was worth in 2011 between $140,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 US
I now know one word of French. "No".
You must be the most entertaining Dungeon Master, the way you tell stories.
I feel like this is sort of a followup for those who wanted a Goblin Vampire Death Cult Trap.
You are so adorable and entertaining. Love your content!
Rodents of unusual size? I don't think the exist.
That's Hameln, anglicised as Hamelin.
YES!!! I love Faerie Deals!!!
Thanks Dael! Love your stuff!
Just to inform you...
The town is called Hameln not Hamel
Kid of personal, my family is from there XP
Otherwise, very good video, although I’m used to the more traditional version of the story XP
The story come from around 1280 something when a bunch of kids went missing, and there is a play in Hameln every year.
Also, there are little bronze rats inlaid in the street, following the path he supposedly took.
I think the original version states, that one kid was left behind, because it was deaf and so it wasn’t enchanted by the music.
When they found themselves in the cave, there was a lot of candy and toys and they just stayed there.
I thought we weren't supposed to let you have knives???!!!???
Us: Dael, what have you got there?
Dael: A KNIFE!
Us: NO!
Dael: TWO KNIVES!
Unrelated to the actual video beyond the first and last few seconds, but if you get any more mermaid-themed blades, we'll have to declare you the Vax'ildan of mer-blades. Mer-dagger-dagger-dagger.
How do you keep getting more knives?
LoL! This is great. You are hilarious. 😂
The Pied Piper is Dracula confirmed
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t believe they exist...
¡Si! ¡Gracias!
He he silly me.. I thought you'll tell us about Heden and the green order. lol.
(:
Also I don't remember the piper to have bagpipes but more of a long flute with a large opening at the end.
What? The “Piper” part of the “Pied Piper” refers to bagpipes! Mind ... blown! ... I’m a graybeard now, and I never knew that. Thank you for rectifying my “gross” deficiency of knowledge.
By zee vay, I vould say zee Pied Pipe-air turned zee “hydra-rats” into “hydro-rats,” no? Okay, okay, my French accent isn’t any better, and my sense of humor may be worse, haha.
Merci beaucoup to Madmoiselle Dael for another tale that is as tasty as an omelette du fromage! Gah, gack, agh! What happened? He spoke French! (I doubt anyone will get that Steve Martin reference, but I did say I’m a graybeard. Oh well, c’est la vie!)
As normal as French can be haha ... Brilliant! Half of my countrymen speak French and oh boy do we love taking the piss out of them every once in a while.
Damn, I identify so hard with clumsy Joe. That would totally happen to me. 🤕
My nan doesn't have an email tho..
Great as always. Seems like youtube's really screwed up the recommended videos again though, at least for me here *shrug*
Given the name of Colville's book series, I'm not sure how it took you so long to cover a myth called this. XD
when dael jinxes 2019
Huh. The last UA-cam video I watched featured Kyle Hill (of 'Because Science') doing a bad Australian accent. Then this video involved an Australian doing a (charmingly) bad French accent. I guess the next video I watch should be a French person doing a bad American accent, and then the circle will be complete.
I only just realized I didn't know the story of the Pied Piper
So the moral of the story is to never trust a politician?
Haha. Or "don't stiff freelancers."
Or foreign weirdos with magic fae powers, for that matter.
Chaotic Neutral.
ironic 2019 started with rats, associated with the plauge and all
Wait, technology explosion?
A like for Princess Bride reference!
10 million florins would be like 32 tonnes of gold.
2:27 And it translates into what? That was as hard to understand, doing double accent duty, as regular french lol.
Yay!!!!
NO! You have to do a bad German accent or I won't be justified to do a bad Australian accent anymore
The people of Hamlin have cartoony English accents?