The Brothers Grimm’s “The Riddle”
The Brothers Grimm’s “The Riddle” A king’s son goes off into the world with only his trusted servant and encounters three deadly places to sleep, wandering in the forest and the world for a long time. He encounters beautiful and good maidens but tries to marry the third: a bewitching lover of riddles who has already dispatched nine suitors. His harrowing experiences provide him a riddle she cannot guess, and which he uses to pass on poison that gets past her defenses. He plays along, however, and her ruse is exposed to twelve judges, to whom he presents proof in the cloth of maidenhood and…
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