The Brave Young Prince and the Golden Apples. Part 1
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The story tells us about a king who had three sons and an enchanted tree that made golden apples.
But the king had never had he chance to taste the golden apples because, each year, when the apples were ripe, a thief stole all the apples.
The older sons of the king tried to catch the thief, but did not succeed, so the king wanted to cut the apple tree.
The Young Prince asked his father to let him try his luck to catch the thief before cutting the tree. On the night before the apples were ripe, the Young Prince found a way to stay awake all night and, when he heard some movement around the tree, used his bow and arrow to catch the thief. Finally, he wounded the apple thief, who ran away, leaving a trail of blood behind him. The next morning, the Young Prince brought some golden apples to his father, the king, and aked for permission to follow the thief and catch him.
So, the three brothers went together in search of the thief, following the blood trail, till they reached a deep coomb.
The older brothers were afraid to go down the coomb, so the brave Young Prince went there alone.
There, he found a copper palace, where a princess lived, and she told him that there were three dragons who kidnapped her and her sisters from her father's kingdom and wanted to marry them. But the girls didn't love the dragons and didn't want to marry them. So, the Young Prince fought the first dragon and defeated him. He turned the dragon's castle into a copper apple and gave it to the princess.
They went together to the second dragon's castle (the silver one) and met the princess's sister. The Young Prince defeated the second dragon, changed his castle into a silver apple and went to the third dragon's castle together with the two princesses.
Here, after a difficult and long fight, the Young Prince defeated the third dragon and turned his castle into a golden apple. He took the three princesses to the place where he had climbed down the coomb and asked his brothers to send down a cord in order to bring up the three princesses. After the three sisters were up, his brothers cut the cord, hoping the Young Prince would be killed, and they left him there for dead. His brothers took the princesses to their father's kingdom and married the older sisters.
The Young Prince was left in the coomb and he tried to find a way to get out of there. While he was searching for a way out, he saw a gargoyle attacking the chicks of a wyvern. He killed the gargoyle and, happy that her chicks were safe, the wyvern helped the v to get back to his land.
There, the Young Prince found out that his brothers had married the two older princesses and that the younger princess didn't want to marry anyone except the one who could bring her a gold distaff and spindle, that could spin by itself, and the gold hen with its gold chicks. The the younger princess didn't want to marry anyone expect the one who had saved he. talked to the king's silversmith to help him and he took the objects out of the gold apple he had saved in his pocket. The silversmith brought those objects to the king, and the princess said she would marry the man who brought the objects she had asked, because she knew that only the Young Prince could bring them to her. The king and the princess recognised the Young Prince and he told them what had happened.
The king was very angry with his older sons, but the Young Prince forgave them, saying that God would punish them. So, the three princes went out in the garden to try their bows and arrows and each sent an arrow into the sky. The older princes' arrows fell into their heads, killing them instantly, but the Young Prince's arrow fell at his feet.
The king buried his sons and after that the Young Prince married the young princess and they lived happily ever after.
The story has been dramatised by the students from grade 5 C from
Școala Gimnaziala „Vasile Alecsandri” Baia Mare,
coordinated by prof. Elena Calincan.
It was translated into English by prof. Daniela Buda
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