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Olof Trätälja by Gerhard Munthe. Olof Trätälja (Old Norse: Óláfr trételgja, Swedish: Olof Trätälja, Norwegian: Olav Tretelgja, all meaning Olaf Woodwhittler) was the son of the Swedish king Ingjald illråde, ruler of the House of Yngling in the 7th century according to Ynglingatal, a Skaldic poem detailing the kings of that house.
The Tale of the Conversation with a Woodcutter at Na Mountain is the twelfth story of Nguyễn Dữ's Truyền kỳ mạn lục collection, [1] published in the third volume. [2] Na is a mountain in Thanh Hóa, with a long, narrow and craggy cave going through it. Every day, an old woodcutter exists the cave and exchanges firewood for fish and ...
According to Ross King, researchers Ch'oe and Kim divided the narrative into three versions: (1) tales that lack the woodcutter's journey to heaven; (2) tales wherein the woodcutter follows his wife to the heavenly realm and is forced to fulfill tasks for a heavenly deity; and (3) tales that show the woodcutter's return to Earth. [8]
A woodcutter finds the camel, which brings the man many riches and is eventually bought by the king. The king's daughter marries the camel, who reveals he is a man underneath the animal form. He takes part in a war to defend the kingdom, and his wife betrays his trust.
The woodcutter notes that the man was elderly, as the visitor referred to England as "Saxony" which was not in use at that time. The next day the visitor wishes to leave. Before he does, he claims that he is a King and is descended from Odin. He tells the woodcutter that he is exiled, but that he will always be a king because he holds the Disk ...
They find a child abandoned in a basket along with a kimono and an amulet; the commoner steals the items, for which the woodcutter rebukes him. The commoner deduces that the woodcutter had lied not because he feared getting in trouble, but because he had stolen the wife's dagger to sell for food. Meanwhile, the priest attempts to soothe the baby.
In the original version, Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا ʿAlī Bābā) is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret treasure of a thieves' den, and enters with the magic phrase "open sesame". The thieves try to kill Ali Baba, and his rich and greedy brother Cassim tries to steal the treasure for himself, but Ali Baba ...
The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]