Fables and Folktales: Prince Lindworm

Time for a short and sweet Norwegian fairy tale about true love's whip!
I'm not sorry for the ending song and I never will be

PARTIAL TRACKLIST: Starfall (Two Steps From Hell), Wind Queen (Two Steps From Hell), Prince of Darkness (City of the Fallen)

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[tavianroberts]

my favorite part is that the lindworm actually agrees to taking off his own skin nine times instead of just... tearing off her dresses himself and then eating her. He may be a bloodthirsty dragon, but he's still a gentleman.

[colinwhitfill]

Gotta give props to the witch. She gives clear instructions, and then when she learns those instructions haven't been followed, she helps out the person most in danger from it. No evil laughter or karmic punishment, just honest help and advice.

[Mastercrazybird]

Red overenthusiastically singing "Wake Me Up" is my favorite thing for today.

[elijahblast]

Head Canon: The ghosts of the two other princesses now haunt the castle. They’re pretty nice to everyone, but they won’t stop giving the prince shit for eating them

[tame]

Shoutout to everyone involved in the weddings for being perfectly fine with partying with a dragon three times in a row

[auzpayeur]

This is weird, because there’s *another* Norwegian fairy tale about a childless queen who eats two flowers and gets a beautiful child and an ugly child, only in that story the two kids really love each other and the ugly child winds up rescuing the beautiful child from trolls.
I guess eating flowers is just A Thing in Norwegian fairy tales

[Hehe-posz]

I love how the queen just ate the other flower because *'iT wAs TaStY'* not because she wanted another kid...

[shaynatang]

I love how the queen flinches when the old witch appears while shepherd girl gets into a fighting stance.

[Knick-Knack-]

Witch: So you'll wear 10 dresses, whip him, dump the milk on him and then give him a hug.
Peasant Girl: A hug?
Witch: I said all that and you question the hug? Its not necessary but the lad probably needs it.

[Diego-zzdf]

I like that the witch is genuinely helpful and doesn't pull any weird/mischievous/evil shenanigans with anyone she meets.

[dominiklehn]

I love how when the queen is spooked she just flinches away, but the leasing girl immediately goes into a fighting stance.

[andyknightwarden]

"Well, f*CK me, then."
"I think it's sweet."
Love the characters, Red.

[GoErikTheRed]

Red singing "wake me up" aggressively while also somehow whispering is best Red

[IFalled]

A prince, trying to explain why he hires a peasant women to whip him and douse him with milk to his concerned servents: "Have you ever heard of the Lindworm?"

[kurokonatsuki]

It would have been a real twist if all he needed was just a hug, and the wipping was just the Old Lady's kink and thought it would be funny to tell the girl.

[samanthawachter]

This was interesting to hear. The version of the story I've known was that the queen was told to eat two onions to conceive twins, but she had to ba sure to peel them first. The queen was so eager to have a child, that she forgot to peel the first onion, but took the time to peel the second. This in turn correlated to when the maiden requested the lindworm to strip layers of his skin, cause it was like peeling off those onion layers the queen neglected to take off herself

[gear]

"Did you get rounder?"

"It was a big cake."

Honestly mood.

[kacpikachu]

Red’s rendition of “Wake Me Up Inside” gave me life 😆

[Nurat]

I was low key expecting the lindworm to go like "Prince, I am your sister!" And they go a journey to turn her back into a human.

[calamaria]

I like how the story mentions that: "Yay they have a beautiful son! Who goes out and finds a wife until some dragon 'says me first'" and then the second son is never mentioned again. Whether irrelevant or boring, I think the singular thing that started all this becoming overshadowed is hilarious.