THE SHIP WALKING ON LAND
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“Hello, King. Here is the ship, the Ship walking on land. And now I need your daughter in marriage, with seven hundred farms as a dowry."
"Young man, I will give you my daughter, with seven hundred farms as a dowry, when you have shown me a man capable of downing, in an hour, seven casks of wine."
"King, you will be content. Valets, quickly, bring here seven casks of wine, and break them down from the top."
The servants obeyed.
Then the boy called the man he had found gnawing at a vine.
"Go, my friend."
In an hour, the man had downed the seven casks of wine.
“King, that is done. And now I need your daughter in marriage, with seven hundred farms as a dowry."
"Young man, I will give you my daughter, with seven hundred farms as a dowry, when you have shown me a man capable of swallowing, in an hour, the meat of seven oxen."
"King, you will be content. Cooks, quickly, bring here the meat of seven oxen."
The cooks obeyed.
Then the boy called the man he had found gnawing a snow-white cow bone.
"Go, my friend."
Within an hour, the man had swallowed the meat of seven oxen.
“King, that is done. And now I need your daughter in marriage, with seven hundred farms as a dowry."
"Young man, my daughter doesn't want you."
"King, you lied about it. Let's fight."
Then the king summoned his soldiers and went to war. But the young man called the woodcutter, and the man with the bellows as big as a church.
"Go, my friends."
With great blows of his axe, the woodcutter laid the king's soldiers dead by the hundreds. With the bellows as big as a church, his companion made the bullets, stones, and iron balls fly seven leagues.
The king saw that he was not the strongest.
“Young man, let’s make peace. Send these people away quickly. I give you my daughter in marriage, with seven hundred farms as a dowry."
What was said was done. The young man sent away his four friends loaded with presents. He married the king's daughter. They both lived rich and happy lives for a long time.
Source: Le Navire Marchant sur Terre, from the French book Contes populaires de la Gascogne, tome 2, published in 1886
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Hello, my name is Vincent Celier.
I am writing translations of folk tales that I found in public domain French books, so that people who do not understand French may enjoy them too.
Of course, the king gave the boy some seemingly impossible tasks before allowing him to marry his daughter.
And that is when the guys the boy collected on the way to the king's castle helped him. Including fighting against the army of the king!
In the end, the boy married the king's daughter and they lived happily ever after.
Do some of you play Hive games?
Personally, I like to play idle games that last for a long time.
Currently, I am playing Rising Star
and dCrops.
I have been playing these two games for a long time.
For some reason, I have never played Splinterlands.
Recently, I have learned of a new game that will start in the next few months: HOLOZING.
HOLOZING is "a roleplaying adventure game for both casual and competitive players."
I don't know if I will be very competitive playing this game, but I intend to try. In any case, I am sure I will play this game for a long time.
-- Vincent Celier
It is wonderful to see how the child was able to overcome all the difficulties and find support in his new friends.
Friendship and teamwork are really powerful.
I am glad to hear that the boy was able to marry the king's daughter and have a happy ending.
Undoubtedly, this story teaches us the value of perseverance and self-confidence.
I play RisingStar daily, I am a fan of the music, there are good songs that can be purchased and downloaded.
Thank you very much for your translations.
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Instead of keeping to his promise, the King went further to test the young man that brought him the ship. That smells of dishonesty. Maybe the King wanted to have the ship without giving out his daughter or the dowry. But the poor man, or rather the Good Lord who alone is omniscient knew such would happen and he provided the youngest son with four men that satisfied the king's tests. The four men also helped to subdue the armies of the King in battle and make the King keep his promise. Had this not happened the labours of the youngest son would have been in vain. His kindness was sufficiently rewarded when he wedded the king's daughter and had a happy life with her. Some lesson here. When showing others kindness we may meet people who repay our good deeds with evil. But if we persever we will get rewarded.
I enjoyed this tale, @vcelier. Thanks for sharing.
Games are a really fun way to pass the time, plus you can learn a lot of important things while doing so. I'm not so into gaming but it looks like the ones you have mentioned will be good. Maybe I will try them out later.
Goodbye and God bless you and your family.
This is an interesting tale. The youngest of the boy does his best by getting the ship walking on the land. He is able to complete all the task the king has giving him. The last task seems most difficult but the youngest boy is able to defeat the king soldiers with the help of his friend. He reaps the fruit of being good to people.
At last, he gets married to the King's daughter and gets all the beautiful present plus the dowry from the king. He also lives happily with his wife.
I haven't tried any gaming on hive. I'm sure it is cool and you will certainly like it.
I'ts wonderful to see how the young man faces all the challenges to bring that ship that walks on land, and now when he has it, and he asks for the king to fulfil his promise and marry her daughter to him with the dowry he promised.
The dowry includes 700 farms, but the king has some other plans, His demands keep coming and the young boy one by one completes all the demands of the king to marry his daughter.
in the end, he and his fellow did what they never thought of doing, they fought with the king's men and defeated them, and in the end, the king finally decided to marry her daughter to this brave man and after that, they will happily.
I have played Splinter Land in the past and I love its gameplay, but nowadays I am not playing any game, i have delegated some of my HP to upcoming game holozing and I am very excited about it. I can't wait to what they have for us in the coming months.
After reading today's story, I would like to say that the way the boy obeyed all the words of the king and the way the king continued to speak one by one, the boy continued to fulfill, so the king should not do this. He should have declared war, but he would have happily given his daughter's hand to this boy. The king did not do that, so this boy killed all the soldiers of the king. It was very wrong. When the king saw Since he cannot resist her, he has given his daughter's hand in his hand.
It's a good thing they are now living happily ever after and we hope the boy makes the king's daughter very happy.
In the beginning I also played SprintLand a lot but then I gave up because of the bots now this game is here I will definitely try to play it because it looks like it will be very interesting.
The youngest son of the widow succeeded in bringing the ship walking on Land to the king. Then when it was the King's turn to fulfil his part of giving his daughter's hand in marriage to the youngest son, he started coming up with some hard tasks that would disqualify the youngest son, but the people the youngest son picked on his way back to the King's castle help him in fulfilling all the task the king gave his daughters hand in marriage to him. And that was how the son of the widow ended up marrying the princess and they lived happily together.
This story actually ended well, with a lot of lessons to learn.
I have never tried playing those games on Hive before. I was always having a feeling that they wouldn't be interesting. But I hope to try them someday.
It was not surprising the reaction of the King, as always he showed himself in a cheating way, and that is bad for others, the king tried to deceive everyone, but especially the young man who sought the boat that walked, plus the tests he put him was so that he could not complete them, however, the bullet backfired, thanks to the young man along the way picked up people who then helped him.
As always, everyone ended up happy and content.
I'm in some sense the same as you, I hardly play any of the games, but it's a matter of time. Many times work consumes me and the games once you are addicted you forget everything else.
I never played such games . What are the requirements. I mean how we can play?
I also wants to play these games. Please guide me.
If we talk about the story, king was looking so dishonest and do not fulfill his promise.
He was increasing his conditions on which he will marry her daughter.
But he also wants to check that guy whom he will marry her daughter and wants to check that how much strong he is.
He was one and fight with soldiers and king.
He was full of confidence and wants to get married with princess and king has to give her daughter in marriage with him with seven hundred farms in dowry.
End was happy and peaceful.
The king, though royalty, is not honest at all. Why did he change the terms? Why did he play foul. But the good thing is the Good Lord already prepared the youngest son for the rigorous task ahead of him. If not, the son would have failed these tests and his prize of the Princess denied him.
How kindness and humility paid off at the end of the day.
I hardly play games, not enough time to do that.
Hahaha... This King is rather impossible! How can he renege on his promise of paying seven hundred farms as his daughter's dowry to anyone who could bring to him, the ship walking on land?
Fortunately for the youngest son of the widow, the Good Lord who knew what was ahead of him, had already prepared the journey for him.
The four passengers proved to be very useful to the youngest son, and this made him win against the King. He claimed his prize and lived happily ever after. A good ending.
As if the good Lord knew that the king was going to give the young boy some hard task when he gifted him with those four men, every man with his task to complete. The king was trying to play smart on the boy not knowing that the boy came prepared. His kindness brought him that far.
The boy stood his ground even when the king told him that his daughter doesn't want to marry him. I can't believe he challenged the king to fight, I guess he will be like "You lie king, it is either I die here or I marry your daughter"lol! It shows courage and one who is determined to get something. I am glad the king later concurred and allowed the boy to marry his daughter.
There is something I don’t like about people and it can be very annoying. The King also did it in this story. Truly, the normal agreement was that anyone who wants to mallet the princess needs to find the sheep walking on land but I’m surprised that the King still gave him other tasks even after that.
I think they young man was smart enough to tel the King that they should have a fight. If he didn’t say so, the King may still be telling him to do so many things that are not reasonable. I’m glad that the King later surrendered and allows the young man to marry his daughter. He took a very bold step and I love that.
I learnt from this which mesns we should be outspoken. The fact that someone wants to help us does nor mean we should always dance to their tunes because it may sometimes not be favorable to us
Lol!
Mallet: Verb: To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet (a type of hammer).
The king is a deceivers so he had no intention of giving him his daughter in the first place after all the suffering the man went through. It is good to always do good and follow instructions his friends later help him at the end if not the king will have cheated him. Thank God they lived happily ever without disturbance from the king.
This story is such an interesting one
I knew the people he carried on his way back to the palace had there purpose.
I’m glad he ended up getting married to the king’s daughter.
It was not in vain that the young man made friends on his journey. The moral of this story is: help other people and they will help you.
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The long awaiting walking ship story I have been waiting for actually. One thing I don't like is the dishonesty of the king. Since the young man have been able to provide that which he ask of, why can't he just give that young man his daughter in hand to marriage. Why do the king need to come up with another request. That is not fare to me actually if I should decide. Well probably the king might be testing the young man persistency in even keeping going and keeping it on no matter what because even after three trials, the young man passed all the test and that is to show he actually deserve to have the king daughter for marriage. Quite an interesting story which I was able to learn a lot. One of the golden thing I learn is to be persistent to keep going when you want to get something you desire, Don't easily give up. I guess I learnt that from the young man.