Line #3 Literature/TheBlueMountains


1	''The Blue Mountains'' is a FairyTale collected by Creator/AndrewLang in ''The Yellow Fairy Book'', for which he gave no geographic information[[note]]though one suspects that the teller was Irish or of Irish descent[[/note]].
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3	A Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman, all soldiers, desert together. They are dying of hunger when the Scotsman sees a castle and goes without telling the others. He is fed there by an astoundingly beautiful woman, and given a bed, and falls soundly asleep. The Englishman follows and does the same. The Irishman, following after, sees the same and asks what it means before he eats anything. Whereupon the woman tells him that she is a princess and can be saved only by a man who stays in a little room from ten o'clock till midnight for three nights on end. When he does so, he is beaten severely every night, but the princess revives him.
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5	She vanishes. He is told that he must stay awake to see her, but a little boy sticks a pin in his coat, which puts him to sleep. She leaves. He searches for her for three years and is ready to kill himself, but when he draws his sword that she had given him, it tells him he will find her in the Blue Mountains. He searches onward. Two hermits can't tell him, but each send him on to another, and the third can command all the birds of the world. When they arrive, only an eagle knows of the Blue Mountains, but is willing to carry him there. He arrives the day she is forced to marry, and gets the hen-wife to bring her to him, and so they marry instead of the man she was being forced to.
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7	Compare ''Literature/SoriaMoriaCastle'', ''Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon'', ''Literature/{{Pintosmalto}}'', and ''Literature/TheFeatherOfFinistTheFalcon''.
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9	Full text [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/009.htm here]].
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11	!!Tropes included
12	%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* CoolSword
13	* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Ask what's going on
14	-->'' I have been here for sixteen years now, and no one who ever came to the castle has asked me who I was, except yourself.''
15	%%* DamselInDistress: The beautiful woman. It helps to ask.
16	%%* DrivenToSuicide: The Irishman
17	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Takes the main character seven years to get there
18	%%* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
19	%%* FauxDeath: The other men
20	%%* ForbiddenFruit: He's ''told'' he has to stay awake.
21	* HealingHands: The princess can revive the soldier.
22	* NamelessNarrative: No one at all is named
23	%%* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: What he must endure to save her
24	%%* RagsToRoyalty: The Irishman
25	%%* RescueRomance: The princess and the soldier
26	* StandardHeroReward
27	-->'''I am an enchanted Princess, and my father has promised that the man who releases me from the spell shall have the third of his kingdom while he is alive, and the whole of it after he is dead, and marry me as well''
28	* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The soldier must endure until midnight to save the princess.
29	* AYearAndADay: How long the wedding lasts
30	* YouHaveWaitedLongEnough: He arrives just in time.

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