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How does the Brothers Grimm’s version of “Rapunzel” differ from earlier versions?

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In the Brothers Grimm’s version, Rapunzel is locked in a tower by Frau Gothel, and a prince climbs her hair to visit her. In the Persian epic Shāh-nāmeh, completed by Ferdowsī in 1010, the princess Rudabeh asks her lover, Zal, to climb her long hair to reach her on the roof of her father’s palace, but he uses a lasso instead.