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Rumpelstiltskin爱人罗兰

When in the morning the king came and found everything just as he desired, he married her, and the beautiful millers daughter became queen.

A year later she brought a beautiful child to the world. She thought no more about the little man, but suddenly he appeared in her room and said, Now give me that which you promised.

the queen took fright and offered the little man all the wealth of the kingdom if he would let her keep the child, but the little man said, No. Something living is dearer to me than all the treasures of the world.

then the queen began lamenting and crying so much that the little man took pity on her and said, I will give you three days time. If by then you know my name, then you shall keep your child.

the queen spent the entire night thinking of all the names she had ever heard. Then she sent a messenger into the country to inquire far and wide what other names there were. When the little man returned the next day she began with Kaspar, Melchior, Balzer, and said in order all the names she knew. After each one the little man said, That is not my name.

the second day she sent inquiries into the neighborhood as to what names people had. She recited the most unusual and most curious names to the little man: Is your name perhaps Beastrib? Or Muttoncalf? Or Legstring?

But he always answered, That is not my name.

On the third day the messenger returned and said, I have not been able to find a single new name, but when I was approaching a high mountain in the corner of the woods, there where the fox and the hare say good-night, I saw a little house. A fire was burning in front of the house, and an altogether comical little man was jumping around the fire, hopping on one leg and calling out: