Fairy tale about Королька, about Winter, about the Eagle and about Royal the son

In ancient times, much, it is a lot of years back, speak, have squabbled among themselves winter and королек. I do not know plainly, because of what.

- I will teach a good lesson you, a bird! - the winter threatened.

- We still will see it! - answered королек.

By the night the winter has sent a bitter cold.

In the morning the winter, seeing, that королек, as always, oars and молодцеват, was surprised and has asked it:

- Where you have spent night?

- In a laundry where day-labourers erase, - has answered королек.

- All right, today I to you will reach.

This night became so coldly, that water froze in the centre.

But королек was at all there where all froze, and for other morning winter, seeing, that it is still vigorous also oars, has asked it:

- Where you have spent night?

- In a shed, with an oxen, - has answered королек.

The next night such fierce cold, such unknown icy cold has come, that at an oxen tails have frozen to back, and королек in the morning nevertheless flitted and chirped, as if on a court yard there was a May.

- How, you have not died yet? - The winter has asked, marvelling to that королек again here as here. - Where you have spent night?

At a newly-married couple, in their bed.

- Here where has found to itself a place! Who would guess there it to search? Well, yes anything, for me will not be gone. This night I will finish you.

- We still will see it! - has answered королек.

That night the winter has sent such frost, became so coldly so coldly, that for other morning of a newly-married couple have found to death grown numb in bed.

Королек it was sheltered in a wall hollow, near the hot furnace of the baker where the cold could not get at it. But there it has met the mouse, too searching than a place is warmer, and they have outright quarrelled. As they could not get on between themselves business has been decided to finish, having appointed through a week on a grief Bre great fight between all feathery and all four-footed that edge.

All animals have been notified, and in agreed day of a bird of all округи since the morning have gathered for a grief Bre. A long chain inhabitants of poultry yards - ducks, geese, turkey-cocks, peacocks, cocks and hens - and any other birds lasted there: сороки, ravens, сойки, ouzels; horses, donkeys, an oxen, cows in the same place have converged, rams, goats, dogs, cats, rats and mice, - nobody could prevent them in it. Fight has stood out the severe; there was it with variable success. Feathers and flied in air, and the earth has been covered by wool shreds, shouts, мычанье, ржанье, grunting, блеянье, miaow from different directions rushed. Here it was terrible!

Already it seemed, that the victory remains for four-footed as the eagle who was strongly late has suddenly arrived; it has rushed to a thick of fight. Where it has struck, it struck all to death, and soon overweight has appeared on the party feathery.

The royal son watched battle from a window of the palace. Seeing as the eagle finishes with four-footed, it has seized minute when that has overtaken a window, and has struck its sabre so strongly, that at an eagle the wing has broken, and it has fallen down to the ground. Thanks to it the victory was gained all the same by the four-footed. However королек, battling as the hero, has sung the song on a belltower sacred Эрве which still rises to this day on a grief Bre.

And the wounded eagle could not fly more and has told to the royal son:

- Now you should feed throughout nine months me with partridges and hares.

- I agree, - the prince has told.

After the lapse of nine months the eagle, absolutely having recovered, has told to the royal son:

- Now I will depart to the mother; I wish, that you have gone with me to have a look at my lock.

- Willingly, - the prince has told, - but how I there will get? After all you fly by air, and I on foot, top cannot keep up with you.

- Sit down to me on a back.

The prince and has made. They have rushed over mountains, over dales, woods and the seas.

- Hello, the mother, - the eagle has told, having arrived home.

- It you, expensive sonny? Long you were absent this time, I already was anxious, that all are not present you.

- I strongly was sick, the lovely mother, - the eagle has answered and, having specified in the prince, has added: is a son of the king of the Bottom Brittany, it has arrived to see you.

- The royal son! - the old eagle-hen has exclaimed. - here a titbit; we will feast on glory!

- No, the mother, do not do to it harm; it it is good with me managed within those nine months, that I was ill at it; I have invited him to stay for a while with us, in our lock, - it is necessary to accept is better it.

The eagle had a beauty sister, and the prince has fallen in love with it from the first sight. The eagle and his mother very much were dissatisfied with it.

There has passed month, then the second, the third; passed six months, and the prince and speeches did not get coming back home. It at all was not pleasant to the old woman, and at last she has told to the son, that if its friend will not be cleaned back home it will fry it for a dinner and will submit under any tasty sauce.

Услыхав, that has conceived mother, the eagle has suggested the prince to play with it size with a condition: if the prince loses, it loses a life if will win - sister of an eagle becomes his wife.

- I agree, - the prince has told. - where size?

They have entered into wide long avenue of old oaks where there were size.

When their prince has seen, at it heart has stood. These size were pig-iron, each of them weighed five hundred pounds. The eagle took one of them and allow to be amused it: it играючи threw it highly-highly, and then caught, as if an apple. And the poor prince to a size even shifts the from a place could not.

- You have lost, now I the owner over your life, - the eagle has told.

- And I will recoup, - the prince has told to it on it.

- Well, tomorrow we will play still party.

The prince has gone to sister of an eagle and with tears on eyes has told to it about all.

- You promise to store to me fidelity? - She has asked it.

- Yes, to the death, - the prince has answered.

- Then here that it is necessary to make: there are at me two big bull bubbles, I will paint them in black colour that they became similar to size, and I will put them between size of the brother, in that avenue; tomorrow, when you there be, try to begin the first game and choose to itself two bubbles.

Then you it will tell: "Косули, be smoked above and more likely fly to Egypt - here seven years as you here, and have never tried gland"; they immediately will fly up in skies, yes so is high, so is high, that them and it will not be visible. My brother will imagine, that you them so have dexterously thrown it; he in any way will not manage to throw the size as highly, and he should recognise itself(himself) won.

And here they again have gone to avenue where there were size. The prince took the two size, to tell - two bull bubbles more truly, and has begun by them to be amused, throwing them in air with such ease as if in hands it had two balls, filled by bran; and its opponent marvelled, looking at it.

"What would it mean?" - with alarm the eagle wondered.

It the first has thrown the size, yes so is high, that has passed kind a quarter of hour before they have again fallen down to the ground.

- Dexterously! - the prince has told. - now my turn.

After that he has quietly whispered words:

- Косуля, fly home, to Egypt - here seven years as you here, and have never tried gland.

Immediately a size has risen in skies, yes so it is high, so it is high, that soon it it not became visible; and how many both of them waited, it has not fallen down to the ground.

- I have won! - the prince has told.

- Means, each of us has won on one party; tomorrow we will play other game, - the eagle has told.

He in tears has come back home and has told the grief to an old eagle-hen. That has told:

- It is necessary to kill and eat it to what to delay?

- But after all I yet have not overcome it, the mother; tomorrow we will play other game, we will look, as it will get out.

- Meanwhile bring to me waters from a spring, in all house drops are not present.

- All right, the mother, tomorrow morning we with the prince will follow water, and I will suggest it to contend, who will drag for once in a flank more.

The eagle has immediately gone to the prince and has told to it:

- Tomorrow morning we descend behind water for my mother - we will look, who from us will drag for once more.

- Perfectly, - the prince has told, - you only show to me in what it needs to be carried.

The eagle has immediately shown to the prince two flanks, capacity in five kegs everyone; it easily raised on one such up to the top full a flank on a palm of each hand, - after all it was that the person, an eagle, on the whim.

The prince was disturbed more and has again gone to sister of an eagle.

- You promise to store to me fidelity? - She has asked it.

- To the death, - the prince has answered.

- And so, tomorrow morning, when the brother takes the to a flank to go with it to a spring, you to it will tell: "Yes on what to us flanks? Leave them here, they are completely not necessary, and give me a pick, a shovel and a stretcher" is better. The brother will ask: "On what it to you?" You will answer: "to remove a spring from a place and to transfer it here, it after all is much more convenient: it will be possible to take water when only will take in head". Услыхав it, it will follow water one, - after all neither it, nor the mother will not want to spoil a fine spring.

In the morning of next day the eagle has told to the prince:

- Let's follow water for my mother.

- Let's go! - the prince has answered.

- Here mine of a flank, and you take those, - the eagle continued, specifying on two huge flanks.

- Flanks? On what they to us? To waste time in vain?

- Anyhow to us to put waters?

- Give me simply a pick, a shovel and a stretcher.

- What for they to you?

- How what for? The dolt! Yes to transfer a spring here, to the door of kitchen then it is not necessary to go behind water to such distance.

"Well and the athlete!" - the eagle has thought, and aloud he has told:

- Here that, remain here, and I one, descend behind water for the mother.

So it also has made.

When for other day the old woman again began to say to an eagle, that the most true way to get rid of the prince is to kill it, to fry on a spit and to eat, the eagle has answered, that with it well managed at the prince and he does not wish to show an ingratitude, but that it will subject the prince to other tests which it will be difficult to volume to leave with honour.

And it is valid, the eagle declared to the prince:

- Today I have coped one, and tomorrow your turn will come.

- And what will be tomorrow work? - The prince has asked.

- Fire wood is necessary to my mother, it has nothing to heat kitchen. It will be necessary to cut down avenue of old oaks - there - and to combine them here, in a court yard that it had a stock of fire wood for the winter; all it should be made to a sunset.

- All right, I will make, - the prince has told, pretending to be carefree though actually it was strongly disturbed.

It also has this time gone to sister of an eagle.

- You promise to store to me fidelity? - She has again asked it.

- To the death, - the prince has answered.

- And so, tomorrow, when you with a wooden axe which to you will give, will come in wood, remove a camisole, put it on an old oak stub that lays there with вывороченными roots, then strike this wooden axe on a trunk of a near tree, and you will see, that will occur.

The prince and has made: has at daybreak gone to wood with a wooden axe on a shoulder, has removed a camisole, has put it on that old, with вывороченными roots an oak stub which has been specified it, then a wooden axe has struck on a trunk of a near tree, and it has immediately cracked and has failed.

"All right, - the prince, - if this such unwise business has told to itself, I in a trice with it will consult".

It has immediately sufficed an axe the second tree, then the third, - both of them from the first blow were tumbled down down to the ground and so business went further while in all avenue does not remain any not cut down oak. After that the prince has slowly returned to the lock.

- How, you already have made all? - Its eagle has asked.

- All! - the prince has answered.

The eagle in a trice has run in the avenue; увидя, that all its fine oaks are tumbled down down to the ground, he has begun to cry and has gone to mother.

- Poor my mother, I am won. All my fine trees are cut down! I not in forces to overcome this devil, to it any mighty wizard, likely, helps.

While he complained mothers, the prince has entered and has told to it:

- I have overcome you three times, now you should give me the sister!

- Alas, it so, - was said by an eagle. - take away it and leave somewhat quicker.

Here is how happens, that the prince has withdrawn with itself sister of an eagle. But she meanwhile disagreed to marry it and did not wish even to accompany it in possession of his father. She has told to it:

- Now we should stay some time in separation because we cannot get married yet. But be true to me whatever happens and when time will come, we will meet again. Here to you половинка my ring and половинка my handkerchief: protect they be they will help you with future to learn me if in that there will be a need.

The prince has strongly grieved. It took половинку rings and половинку a handkerchief and one has returned to the fatherly lock where all were with all the heart glad to its returning after such long absence.

Sister of an eagle was employed in a service to the jeweller living in that city and working for a royal court yard.

After short time the prince has absolutely forgotten the bride: he has fallen in love with one princess who has arrived to a court yard of his father from the next kingdom. Day of wedding has soon been appointed; began to prepare a great feast and to convoke numerous visitors. The jeweller to whom wedding rings and any other ornaments have been ordered, too have invited, together with his wife and even with its servant who was famous for the beauty and a noble bearing.

The servant has asked to cast the owner to it from pure gold of a small cockerel and the same chicken and, going on a wedding feast, has put them in a pocket. Behind a table it have planted just opposite to newly married. She has put on a table near to herself половинку the rings which significant other was at the prince.

Having seen this половинку, newly married has told to the husband:

- At me exactly the such. - It appears, the prince has presented to it the.

Immediately both половинки have been enclosed one to another; they have converged, and the ring was again closed.

The same has occurred and to both половинками a handkerchief. All present expressed amazement. One only the prince remained quiet and, appear, what did not guess. Then sister of an eagle has put on a table before itself the cockerel worked from gold and a chicken, and then has put a pea on the plate. The cockerel in a moment has swallowed it.

- Again you, the glutton, have eaten a pea, - the chicken has told to it.

- Be silent, - the cockerel has answered, - following I will give to you!

- As though not so! The royal son too promised, that will be true to me to the death when went to play size with an eagle, my brother.

The prince has pricked up the ears. Sister of an eagle has thrown the second pea on the plate; the cockerel and has pecked it this time.

- Again you, the glutton, have eaten a pea! - the chicken has again told.

- Be silent, - the cockerel has answered, - following I will give to you.

- As though not so! The royal son too promised, that will be true to me to the death when the brother my eagle ordered to go to it with it together to a spring behind water.

All present have been extremely surprised and guessed. In the meantime sister of an eagle has thrown on the plate the third pea which the cockerel in a trice has swallowed, as well as those two.

- Again you have eaten a pea, the glutton! - in third time the chicken has told.

- Be silent, the lovely my chicken, following I will by all means give to you.

- As though not so! The royal son too promised, that will be true to me to the death when the brother my eagle has sent it to cut down a wooden axe long avenue of old oaks.

Now all became clear to the prince. It has risen and, having turned back to the father-in-law, has told to it so:

- Expensive father-in-law, I need to ask you council. At me was fine gold ларец, comprising invaluable treasure. I have lost it and have got another. But happens so, that I have again found the first ларец, and now at me their two. What of them to me should be retained: the first or the second?

- Advantage should be always given older, - the aged man has answered.

- I too so think, - the prince has told. - and so, to your daughter I loved other girl and promised to it, that I will take her as wife. Here it!

With these words it has approached to the servant of the jeweller - and it after all there was sister of an eagle! - and, to amazement of all present, took it for a hand.

Other bride and her father and mother, together with relatives and visitors, have left, strongly annoyed.

Despite it, feasts, games and entertainments proceeded, so wedding of the prince and sister of an eagle has been celebrated with due magnificence.