The story of the King’s daughters begins with a rich and powerful king. Three gorgeous daughters were had by the king, and everything that they ever wanted was offered to them on a platter of gold.. They had all that anyone could ever imagine.
However, there was one thing that the king’s gorgeous daughters lacked in their existence and that was a spouse. None of the king’s daughters had a husband or a suitor. This worried the king because he had food, but, he couldn’t eat. The king thought of what to do about this situation.
What would they do about their children’s circumstances, the king asked his wife, the queen. They had everything still, but they couldn’t get a husband. The king’s daughters thought that no one was good enough. The king’s daughters weren’t bothered by the fact that they weren’t married.
The eldest daughter said she wanted to marry the richest man in the world. The second daughter expressed her desire to marry the most handsome man in the world, while the youngest daughter stated that she wanted to marry a king like her father, but one who would be more powerful and richer.
The queen expressed that whoever marries her daughters must be very lucky because all her daughters were indeed very beautiful. She said that her daughters would only marry the best men in the whole world. The king felt bothered and told his wife that he wanted his daughters to marry men who would love and care for them.
The king expressed how he didn’t want his daughters to grow old without a family of their own. The queen then asked the king to do whatever he pleased. However, the queen wanted her daughters to marry only men who could tell their names. This way, she will rest assured that the wisest man is marrying her daughters.
Later, the king announced that he wanted the wisest man to marry his daughters. He said that whoever could tell his daughter’s name would get to marry his daughter. The names of the king’s daughters were beyond the reach of everyone in the nation, despite their best efforts.
Even the rich and the famous went to the palace with gifts, but they also couldn’t guess the king’s children’s names. The tortoise said the names of the princesses, shocking everyone in the land. The king had to give the tortoise his cherished daughters so they could get married.
One day a wise animal decided to guess the princess’ names, so he left for the palace. The tortoise followed the princess everywhere without them knowing. When the tortoise was about to give up, luck smiled. The princesses went to pick apples outside of the town.
They hadn’t reached that far when they saw a bike approaching them and this excited her. The king had to give the tortoise his cherished daughters to arrange their marriages. The youngest princess was happy and so she started singing and dancing all over. As she was singing she started calling out her sister’s name. The second eldest daughter rushed and she did the same thing.
The three princesses ended up singing and dancing because they saw a bike and they called out each other names. The tortoise learned the names of the three princesses in this way. By remembering the princesses names, the tortoise went to the palace and he told the king that he knew his daughter’s names.
The tortoise shocked everyone in the land by saying the names of the princesses. The king had to give his cherished daughters to the tortoise for them to get married. This made the princesses and their mother very sad, however, there was nothing that could do.
The tortoise brought home brides who felt humiliated to become his spouses. The princesses preferred a different life instead of being the tortoise’s brides.