King Grisly-Beard

Source : www.eastoftheweb.com
Title : King Grisly-Beard
Pages : 4 pages

Summary :

There was a great king of land far away in the East. He had a daughter. The king wanted to find a good husband for her. But his daughter always refused the men who come to marry her. One day, she saw a man who had beard and she said that his beard was like an old mop. The king was very angry with his daughter behaved to all his guests. He vowed that his daughter had to marry the first man that come to the door. Then, there was a fiddler come by the castle and played under the window, begged for money. The king heard him and he said that he wanted to marry him with his daughter. Finally, his daughter married with the fiddler and moved to small house. She felt angry because the fiddler did not has a servant and she could not buy anything she wanted. She decided to work, so she weave and many people wanted to buy her wares. Then, there was a drunken soldier came by and rode his horse against her and broke all her goods into a thousand pieces. She cried and said to her husband, but her husband was angry and said that she had to be a kitchen maid and helped the cook in the king’s palace. In a party, she saw the king Grisly-beard and then he said to the princess that actually he was faddler who had lived with her. He was the soldier that over her stall. He did all that things because he loved her so much and wanted her to learn wisdom. Finally, his father came and the party was actually for her and her husband.

Comment:

It’s an interesting story about how to make bad habit/ behave of someone change. The princess who had bad behave at the first could change to a good woman, wise and also nice person.

Rufa’idatul H