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by itself, and it said that it had been waiting for him. He took it and went back, telling his brother that it had been an axe, and endured their ridicule. Again, he heard something digging, found a shovel digging by itself, and took it as well; then he wondered where a brook came from, and found
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When they reached the king, he had decreed that whoever tried and failed would have his ears clipped off and be put on a deserted island. The two older tried, failed, and suffered the punishment. The youngest set the axe to cut down the tree, the spade to dig the well, and the nut to fill it.
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The story says that it was just as well that the brothers lost their ears, because it spared them hearing people's comments that their youngest brother had not been a fool to wonder.
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stated that the tale type was "popular" in Norway, but also "confined to that country". Hodne's catalogue listed 22 variants of the tale type in Norway.
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The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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as type ATU 577, "The King's Tasks". Its original name is also the title of the tale type in Norway, according to scholar
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Three brothers, who had set out because their father was too poor to give them anything, were going to his palace. The
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The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography
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Index

Norwegian
Norwegian
fairy tale
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Jørgen Moe
Norske Folkeeventyr
oak tree
youngest son
axe
hewing
walnut
German language
Cinderella
Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index
Ørnulf Hodne
no
Stith Thompson
"Boots and His Brothers"
the original
ISBN
978-951-41-0963-8
Norway portal
Boots and His Brothers
Categories
Scandinavian folklore
Norwegian fairy tales
ATU 560-649
Asbjørnsen and Moe

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