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Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

The Three Little Birds

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff LLC

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4788 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A princess and her brothers try to find their way home.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening, children. It's Granny McDuff, ready with a story.

0:06.0

So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin.

0:10.0

Once upon a time, more than a thousand years ago,

0:17.0

there was a country which had not only one king to oversee everything, but many kings

0:24.5

who ruled over smaller parts of the land.

0:28.9

One day, it happened that one of these kings was out hunting when he came upon three

0:35.3

girls watching their cows graze in the meadow high up on the mountain.

0:41.4

The eldest of the girls saw the king and pointed at him,

0:45.9

If I cannot have that one, then I will have none, she said.

0:51.4

From the other side of the hill, her sister pointed at the man who stood on the

0:56.5

king's right side and said, Oh, ho, sister, if I cannot have that one, then I will have none.

1:04.9

And the third said the same about the man to the king's left. The king heard all of this, and once the hunt was over,

1:14.2

he ordered that the girls be brought to the palace. What were you speaking about on the mountain

1:20.8

yesterday? The king asked the eldest when they arrived at court. Would you really take me for a husband? Yes, she replied.

1:32.4

So they were married. And her sisters married each of the king's men who they picked out on the

1:39.4

mountain, the one on his left and the other on his right.

1:45.0

Time passed.

1:47.0

And one day the king was called away on business.

1:51.0

He left his dear wife in the care of her sisters as she was about to have a child.

1:57.0

The queen had a boy.

2:08.2

With the king still gone, her sisters cared for the baby and did not allow any nurses to help them.

2:13.6

They had not had children of their own and were quite jealous.

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