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Knaesben Askfis hides in a haystack and is carried by the thief to a castle. He jumps out of the haystack and kills the thief. He also discovers in the castle three horses, of black, gray and white colors. Later the king sends his daughter to a glass mountain with three golden apples, to await for her future husband. [91]
Long is their journey: at first, the youth can only see a blue cloud in the horizon; then, a speck of glitter in the blue cloud, and finally, a gleaming palace in gold and silver. The phoenix leaves the youth there and flies back to its ruler. At midnight, all trolls having fallen asleep, the youth knocks on the castle doors.
The princess reaches a fortress of clay, a fortress of glass, a fortress of iron, a fortress of copper, of silver and finally of gold, asking around about her husband's whereabouts. She locates her husband Habrman in the fortress of gold, as a servant is coming to fetch water for him. She asks for a drink of the jug and drops her ring inside ...
The Girl With Two Husbands is a Greek fairy tale translated and published by Richard MacGillivray Dawkins in Modern Greek Folktales.The tale is part of the more general cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, [1] and is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as tale type ATU 433B, "King Lindworm", a type that deals with maidens disenchanting serpentine husbands.
Aaron and the stranger ride their camels to the base of a high mountain, on whose top lies a cave guarding a great treasure. Aaron rides the camel up the mountain slopes and enters the cave; inside, a vast treasure. The youth loads the camel with sacks of gems and gold and commands it down the mountain, then asks the stranger to send the animal up.
The castle was built above the cave long before any excavation. At that time, the scientists hit a more than 5-foot-thick rock, which blocked them from burrowing into key layers of the collapsed cave.
East of the Sun & West of the Moon, 1914, translated by G. W. Dasent (1910), illustrated by Kay Nielsen. "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", The Dancing Bears, 1954, by W. S. Merwin; East of the Sun and West of the Moon retold by Kathleen and Michael Hague and illustrated by Michael Hague (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980) ISBN 0-15-224703-3.
The men, eager to seek their fortune, to find new adventures in new lands. They long to cross uncharted seas and discover unknown countries, to find secret gold on a mountain trail high in the Andes. They dream of following the path of the setting sun that leads to El Dorado and the Mysterious Cities of Gold.