The castle as seen beside the waterfall from the foot of Nieden from Wiki. Long ago in #Elsaß on the Burg Nideck, which is located on a high hill beside a waterfall, the knights was gigantic. Once one knight’s daughter went to the valley. She wanted to see how the plains below the hills looked. She came down till #Haslach and stopped in front of an agricultural field before the forest. The field was just tilled by the farmers. She stood astonished gazing at the plough, the horses and the peasants. Everything was new to her. “Wow!” - She said, “I will take them all.” Kneeling down on the earth, she spread out her apron and scratched the field with her hands to scooped a chunk. Tying everything in her apron, she rushed home in amusement leaping up the rock in quick and easy steps where the mountain was too steep for a normal man to climb. The #knight was sitting at the table when she entered, “Come, my child!” – He said, “What did you bring? Your cheer is glittering in your eyes!” She swiftly opened her apron and let him look into that. “What are the fidgety things there?” -asked the father. Daughter answered, “Oh father, these are so nice! I haven’t ever had so beautiful toys in my life.” She placed everything on the table taking them out one by one–the plough, the peasants with their horse. She danced around looking at them, laughed and clapped her hands gleefully as the small creatures moved back and forth on the chunk of earth. But the father said, “No my child, these are not toys. These are indeed beautiful, but these are not something to play with. Go straight down to the valley and leave them from where you have picked them up.”The girl cried, but her tear didn't help.The knight repeated, "The farmers are not toys to me. Pick them up gently again and carry to them to their place. If the farmers can't plough their fields down in the valley, we giants will have nothing to survive on in our rock nest here.” *#legend of #Nideck. The Château du Nideck or castle of Niedeck of 12th-13th century is found in a ruined state in the commune of Oberhaslach in the Bas-Rhin region of France, at the Germany-France border. #Folktale #german #sagen #empathy https://www.instagram.com/p/CalitKbrI0o/?utm_medium=tumblr
