FFC 90
850—999 Novella.
105
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whose beams enter through cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to a tree [A pun]. The girl really loves him and rescues his family from poverty [K 1955]. as 1. LRAC no 39. | ||
| *860. | King offers hand of princess to one who brings him glass of all waters [H 1377.1], bouquet of all flowers [H 1377.2] and hazelnuts of ay, ay, ay! [H 1377.3]. Hero sets out and meets a child [N 827] who gives him seawater, beehive and hazelnuts with thorns so that king cries, "Ay, ay, ay!" when he takes them. — Or man takes along shepherd to make princess talk [H 347]. Shepherd insults her and she bursts forth in indignation [H 347.1]. Shepherd has made her talk and claims her for his own wife. as 1. CTA p. 119: Mt *860 (Introd) + Mt 921 b *f d (Gather wool) + Mt *860 (Concl). 2. LRAC no 48: Mt *860 (Introd) + Mt 921 b + Mt *860 (Concl). | |
| *865. | Prince comes to marry princess, but on seeing how very ugly she is, he says he is dazzled by her beauty and will marry someone less beautiful. To spite him, she says she will marry the king's barber but he declines and king has him beheaded. Prince suggests a tournament for her hand, but no knight is unhorsed. King offers her to first to be wounded. All fight with fury and all are wounded. Finally a blind fiddler offers to marry her and is accepted [T 68, X 728]. Cf Panchatantra, transl. by J. Alemany Bolufer, Madrid, Perlado Paez, 1908 p. 384 (Book V, tale 13) Princess with three breasts marries blind man. [ex] 1. ST p. 9. | |
870—879 Heroine marries prince.
| 870 *B. Pregnant princess wishes to marry man of better condition than one who seduced her. She murders |
