The song, which has origins in England, most likely began as a riddle. The cannon was knocked off the wall in 1648. Origins of Humpty Dumpty The main character of the little song, or nursery rhyme, is an egg named Humpty Dumpty. So the link with the game may not be as far-fetched as some of the other interpretations offered. One theory (there are several) is that Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon that sat on Colchesters fortified walls. In the various versions of ‘Humpty Dumpty’ in circulation, he is sometimes sitting on a wall but sometimes elsewhere: in a ‘beck’, for instance (a brook or stream, that is). Humpty Dumpty is a nursery rhyme that is familiar to millions of people around the world. Youve heard it, youve rhymed it, and you still remember it word to word. What seems most likely is that the rhyme may have been sung as an accompaniment to the nineteenth-century game outlined above. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldnt put Humpty Dumpty together again. It’s possible that the nursery rhyme was supposed to be a riddle, to which ‘egg’ was the answer, thus explaining why the king’s horses and the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.īut the truth is, we just don’t know for sure. In John Tenniel’s accompanying illustration, Humpty Dumpty is clearly an egg – albeit one in clothes – so by the 1870s the idea that the nursery rhyme was about an actual egg must have been solidly entrenched. For decades, origin of life researchers have observed the Humpty-Dumpty Effect, drawing from the phenomenon conclusions that range from It’s. Though not explicitly described, he is typically portrayed as an egg and has appeared or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture. Moreover, there is no known causal pathway from the physical components alone, no matter how complete, to a functioning cell, an abiogenesis conundrum we can call the Humpty-Dumpty Effect. This had led to many ideas as to who, or what, the Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English language nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. By the time Lewis Carroll created his nonsense mirror-world of Through the Looking-Glass (1871), the rhyme had become firmly established – like the earlier rhyme about Tweedledum and Tweedledee – and Carroll’s looking-glass fantasy world took the character and gave him a new lease of life as a rather uppity egg who uses words however he wishes to, without worrying that nobody else will understand him. Humpty Dumpty was a common nickname, used in 15th century England, to describe large people.
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