Sammendrag av Grimms' Fairy Tales, Part 36

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1. The servant tastes a white snake, understands animal speech, and discovers that a duck has swallowed the queen’s missing ring.
2. Cleared of theft, he accepts a horse and traveling money instead of a court position and leaves to explore.
3. He rescues three fish, avoids trampling ants, and feeds starving young ravens with his horse’s body.
4. Seeking a princess’s hand, he retrieves a ring from the sea with help from the grateful fish.
5. The princess demands further tasks, and the ants gather scattered millet while the ravens bring an apple from the Tree of Life.
6. The couple share the apple, the princess feels love for him, and they live together to old age.

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Both promise repayment for kindness. Their help supplies what the servant cannot achieve alone.

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