The Ring

fairy-tale · Sweden · Nordic

A young prince rides out in the moonlight and finds a tiny ring by the shore — a delicate band with blue stones arranged like a forget-me-not flower. He picks it up and puts it in his pocket. The ring belongs to a captive princess who, as a child, was taken from her mountain castle when a foreign conqueror killed her father and imprisoned her. Now, the foreign prince wants to marry her, but he is a coarse, giant-like brute. Desperate to escape, the princess had thrown the ring into the river as a plea for help, following a spell her mother taught her. The ring leads the prince to her. Meanwhil

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