{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 108/1908-12-26/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It happened once, where was it? Yes, where did it not happen? There was a king who was so beloved by his people that he constantly heard them express their wish that he should find a wife who was as good and noble as he was. It was difficult for him to find someone whom he believed would be as suitable as he desired for his people. But he had an old friend, a poor forester who lived simply and contentedly in the forest, but who was very wise. He could easily have become rich, for the king would have gladly given him everything. But the forester wanted to remain poor and keep his wisdom. So the king went to his friend, the forester, and asked him for advice. He gave him a sprig of rosemary and said to him, “Keep this, and the girl before whom it bows—think here of the divining rod motif—that is the girl you are to marry!” So the king had a large number of girls brought before him the very next day. He had a large quantity of pearls spread out before the girls and the name of each one written on the table with pearls. Then he announced that the girl before whom the sprig bowed would become his wife; the others would receive only the pearls. Then he went around with the sprig of rosemary—but it did not move, it did not bow before any of them. The girls received their pearls and were sent away. On the second day, the same thing was done, but it happened again, and on the third day it was no different. The king slept the following night and heard something at his window. It turned out to be a little gold bird. It said to him, “You don't know it, but you have done me a great service twice. I want to do you a favor too. When morning comes, get up, take your sprig of rosemary, and follow me. I will lead you to a place where you will find a horse. It has a silver arrow stuck in its body. You must pull it out. Then it can lead you to where you will find your wife!” The next morning, the king went out and followed the golden bird. They finally came to a horse that was weak and sick and said, “A witch shot an arrow into my body.” The king pulled the arrow out of the horse, and at that moment, the weak animal was transformed into a wonderfully bold horse. The king mounted the horse, the sprig of rosemary moved in front of the horse, and the golden bird flew ahead, leading the king on his magical horse. Finally, they came to a glass castle. There they heard a humming and buzzing from afar, and when they entered, the king, the sprig of rosemary, and the golden bird saw another king standing there, made entirely of glass, and in the stomach of this glass king was a large bumblebee. It was the one that was buzzing so loudly, and it was working terribly hard on the king's stomach, trying to work its way out from the inside. The king asked the glass king what this was all about. Yes,” he said, ”just look at the sofa; there sits my queen in her pink silk robe, and you will soon see the secret of what is happening. For now the web that the thorn bush has spun around the queen is being torn apart, and soon it will be completely torn down. When there is none left, when it is completely gone, an evil spider will come and spin a new web around the queen, and while I am enchanted here in a glass body, my wife will be spun into a web by the spider. We have now been imprisoned here for many hundreds of years, until we are redeemed.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. 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Da war ein König, der war bei seinem Volke so beliebt, daß er immerfort den Wunsch um sich herum hörte, er solle doch eine Gemahlin bekommen, die ebenso gut und edel wäre wie er. Schwer war es ihm, jemanden zu finden, von der er glauben konnte, daß sie so geeignet wäre, wie er es für sein Volk wünschte. Aber er hatte einen alten Freund, einen armen Forstmann, der einfach und zufrieden im Walde lebte, der aber sehr weise war. Leicht hätte er reich werden können, denn der König hätte ihm gern alles gegeben. Aber der Forstmann wollte arm bleiben und seine Weisheit behalten. Da ging nun der König zu seinem Freunde, dem Forstmann, und fragte ihn um Rat. Der gab ihm einen Rosmarinstengel und sagte ihm: Den bewahre auf, und das Mädchen, vor dem er sich neigt - man denke hier an das Wünschelrutenmotiv -, das ist das Mädchen, mit dem du dich verbinden sollst! - Da ließ nun der König gleich am nächsten Tag eine große Anzahl Mädchen kommen. Eine große Menge Perlen ließ er vor den Mädchen ausbreiten und den Namen einer jeden mit Perlen auf den Tisch schreiben. Dann ließ er bekanntmachen, daß dasjenige Mädchen, vor dem sich der Stengel neige, seine Gemahlin werden solle; die anderen sollten nur die Perlen bekommen. Dann ging er mit dem Rosmarinstengel herum - aber der rührte sich nicht, er neigte sich vor keiner. Die Mädchen bekamen ihre Perlen und wurden fortgeschickt. Am zweiten Tage wurde dasselbe angestellt, aber es ging wieder so, und am dritten Tage war es auch nicht anders. Da schlief der König in der nächsten Nacht und hörte, daß sich etwas an seinem Fenster meldete. Da stellte es sich heraus, daß es ein Goldvögelchen war. Das sagte zu ihm: Du weißt es zwar nicht, aber du hast mir zweimal einen großen Dienst erwiesen. Ich will dir auch einen Dienst erweisen. Wenn es Morgen geworden ist, dann stehe auf, nimm deinen Rosmarinstengel und folge mir. Ich will dich an einen Ort führen, wo du ein Pferd finden wirst. Das hat in seinem Leibe einen silbernen Pfeil stecken. Den mußt du dem Pferde herausziehen. Dann kann es dich dahin führen, wo du deine Gattin findest! - Am anderen Morgen ging der König hinaus und folgte dem Goldvögelchen. Sie kamen schließlich zu einem Pferd, das war schwächlich und krank und sagte: Es hat mir eine Hexe einen Pfeil in den Leib geschossen. - Der König zog dem Pferde den Pfeil heraus, und in dem Augenblick verwandelte sich das schwächliche Tier in ein wunderbar kühnes Pferd. Das bestieg der König, der Rosmarinstengel bewegte sich vor dem Pferde her, und das Goldvögelchen führte voranfliegend den König auf seinem Zauberpferde dahin. Endlich kamen sie zu einem gläsernen Schloß. Da vernahmen sie schon von ferne ein Gebrumm und Gebrumm und Gebrumm, und als sie eintraten, der König, der Rosmarinstengel und das Goldvögelchen, da konnte der König sehen, wie ein anderer König dastand, der ganz aus Glas war, und in dem Magen dieses gläsernen Königs war eine große Brummfliege. Die war es eben, die so brummte, und die bearbeitete den Magen des Königs furchtbar stark und wollte sich von innen nach außen durcharbeiten. Der König fragte den gläsernen König, was denn das eigentlich wäre? Ja - sagte dieser -, da sieh nur einmal nach dem Sofa; da sitzt meine Königin in dem rosaseidenen Gewande, und das Geheimnis, um das es sich da handelt, das wirst du gleich sehen können. Denn jetzt ist gerade von dem Dornenhecker das Gespinst, das um die Königin herumgesponnen ist, zerrissen, gleich wird es ganz abgerissen sein. Wenn keines mehr herum ist, wenn es ganz ab ist, dann kommt eine böse Spinne, und die spinnt dann wieder ein neues Gespinst um die Königin herum, und während ich hier in einem gläsernen Körper verzaubert bin, wird meine Gemahlin von der Spinne eingesponnen. 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