The Following Excerpt Is from the Introduction to Jacob and Wilhelm

The following excerpt is from the introduction to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Children's Stories and Household Tales (Evaluating the Evidence 21.3) : "The true value of these tales must really be set quite high: they put our ancient heroic poetry in a new light that could not have been produced in any other way. Briar Rose [or Sleeping Beauty], who is put to sleep after being pricked by a spindle, is really Brunhilde, put to sleep after being pricked by a thorn. . . . Snow White sleeps peacefully with the same glowing red colors of life on her cheeks as Snaefrid, the most beautiful woman of all, at whose coffin sits Harald the Fair-Haired [Brunhilde, Snaefrid, and Harald are characters from ancient Germanic myths]. . . . These folktales have kept intact German myths that were thought to be lost. . . ."
The Grimms linked Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to

A) contemporary political figures.
B) characters from German myths.
C) Greek archetypes.
D) figures from Roman history.