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the queen, who walks out that way. In Allerleirauh 

 the princess seeks service in the kitchen, where she soon 

 gives evidence of her art in cooking, and, like the rest of 

 the establishment, is brought into close contact with the 

 king. The corresponding male picture is to be found in 

 Die seeks Diener, where the king's son can transform 

 himself into a swineherd and knows his work. As 

 in Der Eisenofen, we find millers' and swineherds' 

 daughters at hand ready to obey the king's behests; 

 as in Das Hirtenbiiblein, the king is prepared to adopt 

 shepherd boys ; or, as in Die Gansemagd, he can 

 appoint goose - boys their tasks ; or, as in Haaken 

 Borkenskjaeg (the Norse Konig Broselbart), he super- 

 intends the operations of the kitchen ; as in De wilde 

 Mann, king's daughters are intimate with scullions and 

 gardeners' lads, and may be punished for too great 

 intimacy by being sent to work in the brew-house ; 

 as in the Norse Askeladden, somfik Prindsessen til at 

 Ugste sig, it seems quite natural to find the princess 

 in the cow -stall. Nay, if further evidence be required 

 of the simplicity of the life and surroundings of these 

 primitive kings and queens, we can point to the 

 manner in which, in Der Konig vom goldenen Berge 

 and De beiden Kunigeskinner, the royal women lice 

 the heads of their consorts ! * 



If it be said that these simple and primitive sur- 

 roundings of royalty are merely additions of the 

 mediseval peasant to the Marchen drawn from his own 



1 In the Norse tale Fugl Dam the twelve princesses are employed in licing 

 the heads of the trold, and in Soria Moria Slot the princess lices the head of 

 her husband, while the closeness of royalty to lice is emphasised also in the 

 Lapp tale of The King and the Louse. 



