Part 50-resumé af Grimms' Fairy Tales

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1. Dummling’s brothers refuse to share food with a little gray-haired man, who causes each to injure himself while cutting wood.
2. Dummling shares his meal, receives the man’s help, and finds a golden goose beneath a tree.
3. Three sisters stick to the goose and each other; a parson, sexton, and two laborers join the trapped procession.
4. The procession makes the king’s daughter laugh, but the king resists granting Dummling the promised marriage.
5. Two men empty the king’s wine cellar and eat a mountain of bread; the little gray man supplies a remarkable ship.
6. Dummling meets every condition, marries the princess, and inherits the kingdom after the king’s death.

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The man explicitly connects his help to Dummling’s generosity. Kindness, rather than cleverness or status, supplies the means to overcome the king’s demands.

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