

The emperor's stepmother had wanted him to marry her daughter and so hated his new wife. The emperor married the youngest, and two of his friends married the other two. The oldest daughter said that if he married her, she would bake him a loaf of bread that would make him young and brave forever the second one said, if one married her, she would make him a shirt that would protect him in any fight, even with a dragon, and against heat and water the youngest one said that she would bear him twin sons with stars on their foreheads. One day, the emperor was passing with attendants.

Synopsis Ī herdsman had three daughters, Ana, Stana and Laptița. The Romanian tale Doi feți cu stea în frunte was first published in the Romanian magazine Convorbiri Literare, in October, 1874, and signed by Romanian author Ioan Slavici. The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, " The Three Golden Children", albeit following a specific narrative that is found in Romania and Moldova, as well as in Slavic-speaking countries of Europe and in Hungary. An alternate title to the tale is The Twins with the Golden Star. Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book. The Boys with the Golden Stars ( Romanian: Doi feți cu stea în frunte) is a Romanian fairy tale collected in Rumänische Märchen. The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird Ancilotto, King of Provino Princess Belle-Étoile and Prince Chéri The Tale of Tsar Saltan A String of Pearls Twined with Golden Flowers J., in Andrew Lang's The Violet Fairy Book (1901).ĪTU 707 ( The Three Golden Children, or The Three Golden Sons) The boys with the golden stars, by Ford, H.
