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sees her, and Long brings her back. The wizard is furious again. The third night, she becomes a golden ring on a shell in the sea. Long brings Broad with him, and Broad, making himself broad, drinks up the sea, while Long gets the ring. On the way back, however, he cannot carry Broad, but drops him. All the water comes out, and Broad barely manages to avoid drowning, but they eventually make it back.
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nights. The prince tries to talk to her, but she does not answer. As the trio falls asleep, she vanishes, but Sharpsight spots her; she has turned into an acorn on an oak tree. Long brings her back. The wizard is furious. The next day, she becomes a precious stone on a mountain, but again Sharpsight
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On the way, he meets a man who wants to be taken into his service; his name is Long, and he can extend himself, and shows it by taking down a nest from a tall tree. The prince lets him come along. He also meets Broad, who can make himself grow until he is as large as a mountain, and Sharpsight, who
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An aging king tells his one son that he wishes to see him married before he dies. The son replies that he does not know a suitable bride, so the king sends him to a tower room that has not been opened in years. There he finds windows showing beautiful women, and a curtain over one window. He pulls
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They reach the iron castle, and as soon as they are inside, the gates close. They find many men, turned to stone, and food laid out. As nobody is there, they eat the food. The sorcerer appears with the woman and tells them they can have the princess if they could keep her from escaping for
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away the curtain and falls in love with the woman he sees there. He tells his father, who tells him he should have left that window curtained, because the woman is the prisoner of an evil sorcerer, in an iron castle, but the prince has given his word and must try to rescue her.
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The sorcerer turns into a crow, and all the people turned to stone comes back to life. The prince takes the woman home and marries her. Long, Broad, and Sharpsight leave his service and go on to seek their fortune.
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keeps his eyes bandaged because he can see through the bandage, and without it his gaze would set things afire, or break them into pieces. The prince takes them into his service as well.
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Three companions with the prince on horseback: Sharpsight, Long and Broad (Artuš Scheiner, 1925)
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It was appeared in animated short film, Perníkový Dědek which is directed by Dagmar Doubkova.
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Longshanks, Girth, and Keen: The Story of Three Wonderful Serving Men
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adapted and illustrated Andrew Lang's version, titled the same
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The Broad Man, the Tall Man and the Man with Eyes of Flame
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Segnius irritant, or Eight primitive folk-lore stories
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The tale was also collected in German with the name
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Karel Jaromír Erben
Louis Léger
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Louis Léger
Czech
Andrew Lang
The Grey Fairy Book
A. H. Wratislaw
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Jeremiah Curtin
Parker Fillmore
Walter William Strickland
Josef Wenzig
A Book of Wizards
Ruth Manning-Sanders
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