Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
source: celtic fairy tales(1) unit,
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten 1892
Image: personal photo of me at WDW in Orlando with Merida
Image: personal photo of me at WDW in Orlando with Merida
Notes:
- queen names silver-tree and princess named gold-tree
- they both went to a glen where there was a well with trout
- silver-tree asked the trout if she was the most beautiful queen in the world
- he said no gold-tree is
- silver-tree was ragging mad
- she wanted to eat the heart of gold-tree
- the king was told that the queen was ill
- king asked her what was wrong
- nothing that gold-trees heart and liver wont fix
- about this time a prince had came and asked for gold-trees hand in marriage
- the king went hunting and gave the queen the heart and liver of a he-goat
- the queen ate them and rose well and healthy
- a year later the silver-tree went back to the glen and well and asked the tout again
- shocked by the answer of still her daughter gold-tree
- the trout told the queen silver-tree that her daughter was not dead
- silver-tree begged the king to see gold-tree and off they went
- silver-tree steared the ship to see gold-tee
- gold-tree knew that her mother wanted to kill her and told the servants
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