A king had a wife by the name of Silver-Tree and a daughter named Gold-Tree. The two women set off and came to a river with a trout in it. The queen asked the trout if she was the prettiest on the land. This is similar to the story of snow white that is so commonly known today. The trout declared that, her daughter was more beautiful that she was. This made the queen angry. In her rage, she decided to eat the heart and liver of her daughter. Silver-Tree thought this act would make her happy. At the same time the queen wanted her justice, a prince asked to marry the princess. The king allowed it and they moved away. To make his queen happy, the king sent his men to retrieve the heart and liver of a goat.
A year later, thinking she had ate her daughters heart and liver, the queen returned to the trout. She asked again if she was the most beautiful and the trout told her, and the answer was still no. The queen became angry to find out that her daughter, who she thought was dead, is still alive. The queen demanded that she go see her daughter at once.
The prince was away hunting when the king and queen arrived. The princess knew her mother would try to kill her. The servants locked Gold-Tree into her room so her mother could not get her. Silver-Tree tricked Gold-Tree and poisoned her. Gold-Tree fell to the floor dead. When the prince found his dead wife, he preserved her body and kept it locked in a room in the castle. The prince remarried another woman. One day he forgot to take the key and his new wife took it. She unlocked the room the find Gold-Tree who she thought was the most beautiful woman she has ever seen. The new wife took the poison stab out of Gold-Tree's finger and she woke up.
When the prince came back from hunting his new wife told him the Gold-Tree was alive. The prince decided to keep both of the women as his wives. After Gold-Tree woke up, the queen went to the trout a year later and asked the trout if she was the most beautiful. The trout responded no, that Gold-Tree was. Silver-Tree went back to Gold-Tree's home. She tried to poison her with a drink but the new wife tricked Silver-Tree into putting it into her mouth. Silver-Tree died.
The prince and his two wives lived happily ever after.
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