Die goldene Gans

Once upon a time... THE GOLDEN GOOSE

Once upon a time there was a man with three sons. The youngest son was called "Dummling" and was subjected to constant ridicule. One day the eldest son set off into the forest, supplied by his mother with an egg cake and a bottle of wine to stave off hunger. In the forest he met an old man. He greeted him and kindly asked for a piece of cake and a sip of the wine. But the son replied: "Go away, my food stays with me". After the little man had gone away, he began to chop a tree and thrust the axe into his leg and hurried home. Now the second son went into the forest with the same load. The little man asked him for a taste of food and drink and got the same answer. As punishment, he too cut his leg while chopping down a tree. The fool turned to his father and wished to be sent to the forest. Consequently, the little man also asked the dummy for some food. He replied: "In my possession are only ash cakes and sour beer. If this is enough for you, let us eat. "So they sat down and ate and drank. Before the little man disappeared, he said: "Good things shall happen to you, because your heart is pure and full of helpfulness. You will find something at the roots of the old tree over there." The fool cut down the tree and found a goose with feathers of pure gold. He took it with him to an inn where he intended to spend the night. The innkeeper's three daughters marvelled at the wondrous bird and coveted its feathers. Once the fool had gone out, the eldest daughter grabbed a wing and got stuck to it. The same fate befell the second and third sisters. The next morning, the dummy took the goose and set off, not bothering with the girls clinging to it during his rapid walk. A priest cried out, "Why are you women running after the poor boy?" But when he tried to drag the youngest sister away, he too could not break away. The same happened to the sexton, who did not understand why the priest was walking so swiftly with the young people. Two peasants came into view and were asked by the priest to untie him and the sexton, but they too got stuck. So the fool had an entourage of seven people. He reached a town ruled by a king. His daughter could not be made to laugh by anyone. Therefore, he had passed the law that whoever could make her laugh should marry her. The fool stepped in front of the daughter and, with his entourage traipsing behind him, made such a funny impression that the daughter could not stop laughing. The king, however, did not keep his promise and demanded that the fool first deliver a man capable of drinking an entire wine cellar dry. "The old man will be able to help me," thought the fool and went to look for him in the forest. At the place of the felled tree he met a man with a sad face. When asked what was wrong, the man replied, "I have emptied a whole barrel of wine, and yet my thirst is not nearly quenched." So the fool took him to the king's cellar, where he drank all the barrels. The king, however, found the Dummling too bad a son-in-law and now demanded to find a man who could swallow a mountain of bread. In the forest, the boy found the chopped-down tree again and brought the next man to the city, where he ate up a mighty mountain of bread within a day. But the king set a third condition: "Bring me a ship that can also sail on land. "This time the fool found no man in the forest, but the old man himself. He said: "I emptied the wine cellar and ate the bread, now I will give you the ship, for you have revealed your mercy to me. " With the ship moving on water as well as land, the fool finally won the king's daughter and later inherited the king's kingdom, in which he lived long and happily. Loud laughter, atmospheric music. Things are anything but quiet at the Golden Goose. Will they really manage to make the princess laugh?

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