Beschrijving
The King’s Face on the Coin. A king meets a farmer (smith) and receives enigmatic answers to his questions. When the farmer later explains the sense of his answers the king forbids him to reveal the solutions unless he has seen him (his face) 100 times. Then he gives a (several) coin to the farmer.
When the king reports his strange conversation with the farmer to his advisers, none of them knows an answer. They locate the questioner who, as instructed, refuses to tell them anything. But he gives in when his demand the payment with a certain number of coins with the king’s picture on it is fulfilled.
When the king hears the solution from his advisers, he suspects that the farmer has told the secret and reproaches (punishes) him. But the farmer is innocent because he had seen the picture of the ruler 100 times on the coins. He is rewarded by the king (appoints him adviser, marries him to his daughter) [J1161.7].
When the king reports his strange conversation with the farmer to his advisers, none of them knows an answer. They locate the questioner who, as instructed, refuses to tell them anything. But he gives in when his demand the payment with a certain number of coins with the king’s picture on it is fulfilled.
When the king hears the solution from his advisers, he suspects that the farmer has told the secret and reproaches (punishes) him. But the farmer is innocent because he had seen the picture of the ruler 100 times on the coins. He is rewarded by the king (appoints him adviser, marries him to his daughter) [J1161.7].
Motief
J1161.7
Commentaar
Documented in the 10th century by Ibn ab Awn.
Combinaties
875, 921A, 921B*, 921F*, and 922.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
922B
Subgenre
sprookje