Story Time - Episode 51 - The Three Languages - Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm

Story Time - Episode 51 - The Three Languages

Summary

A count's only son could learn nothing. Three times the count sent him for a year to famous masters. Each time, the son came back: saying first that he knew what dogs said when they barked; the next time, what birds said; and finally, what frogs said. Infuriated by his uselessness, his father ordered his people to take him to the woods and kill him, but they sympathised with him, and instead brought the count the eyes and tongue of a deer as proof of his death.

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6 minutes