The Queen's Wedding

Once upon a time there was a King and a Queen, each belonging to their own kingdom. For a long time their kingdoms lived together peacefully and harmoniously. However, one day the King was invited to a wedding at the Queen’s palace. The King said to a woman who lived in his kingdom: “I’ve been invited to a Queen’s palace for a wedding, and don’t particularly want to go alone. Would you be my wife at the wedding? I’ll bring you back tomorrow, and you will be free as you once were.”

The King gave her a beautiful ring, which made her heart as whole as a Queen. But when she came home the following day, she loved having the King’s ring so much that she refused to return it to the King. Then the girl swore that she would travel to the Queen’s palace and revenge herself to the Queen, and her children, from the wedding. “Well,” replied the king, “you may try, but you are not my Queen.”

I’ll be a Queen in the end,

one queen, two queens, three queens.

You’ll never take my ring,

no matter how hard you try.

Since that time the King had married again, and gave his new wife a beautiful ring, and told the Queen of the wedding to take the young girl’s ring, as she was not his wife. But when the young girl arrived with the ring, the Queen saw such power within it that the woods and bushes endeavored to devour her, and eat her kingdom up, and so the three kingdoms have been enemies ever since.