Then the Carpenter says, “[The sovereignty ought to belong to me]. Your ship having broken, by my fastening it [together] at the time when it was becoming rotten, ye will get the country [if ye receive it].”
Afterwards they gave the sovereignty to the eldest Prince.
Bintaenna, Ūva Province.
The Nobleman[2] and his Five Sons. (Variant a.)
In a city there are five sons of a nobleman. In yet [another] city there is a Princess without both parents. The Princess is a person possessing many articles. Having thought that when the eldest son of the nobleman went there she must make him stop [there], and having spoken with the Princess’s kinsfolk [regarding it], the eldest son having gone near the Princess she caused him to remain.
After he stayed there many days, this Princess asks this nobleman’s son, “What do you know of the sciences?” Then he says, “I don’t know a single one.” Having said, “If so, you cannot stay near me; go you away,” she drove him away.
This nobleman’s son came home. The nobleman asks his son, “What have you come for?”
“The Princess asked me, ‘What do you know of the sciences?’ I said, ‘I don’t know anything.’ ‘If so, you cannot stay near me,’ she said. Because of that I came,” he said.
Immediately, this nobleman says to all his five sons, “Unless you five learn five sciences, without [doing so] don’t come to my house.” Having said it he drove them away. Thereupon, these five persons went to five cities, and learning five sciences, after much time came home. [One was a soothsayer, the second was a marksman, the third a thief, the fourth made very rapid journeys, and the fifth could bring the dead to life.]