
Von Schönwerth's "The King's Bodyguard"
The king appoints his handsomest soldier to be his bodyguard and sends him to a nobleman with a beautiful daughter. He tells the daughter not to speak to any soldiers, but she and he grow intimate. After there is a baby, the nobleman sends the bodyguard away for three feathers from the tail of a dragon who lives on a glass mountain.
On the way, he comes to a country where the king has lost a golden chain, and he is only allowed to leave when he promises to learn how to get it from the dragon. The second year he does the same with a king with a barren fig tree, and the third with two men who…
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