The Beautiful Dunja: An Uzbekistan fairy tale

R. Freeman
The Beautiful Dunja: An Uzbekistan fairy tale

Told to Gustav Jungbauer by a peddler in the bazaar of the town Kibrai near Tashkent in August 1892. Translated from the German of Gustav Jungbauer by Roy Freeman in 2013.

In times long ago, there once lived an old king who had three sons. One day the king became very ill and as he felt his death coming close, he called his three sons to his bedside and spoke to them. "Dear children! My life has come to its end. I will soon depart from this impermanent, transitory world, and enter again into the permanent, eternal world. After my release from this life you will take my place on the throne and will reign over my kingdom ......