foliage. The prince then quests for the golden bird, the white saddle-horse with golden-bridle of another Emperor, and the golden-haired "divine Craiessa" ("queen"). In the Romanian tale Povestea lupului năsdrăvan şi a Ilenei Cosinzene, a wolf helps the prince in his quest for the feather of a golden dove, a golden apple, a horse and the legendary princess Ileana Cosânzeana. When the king's other sons kill the prince, the apple wilts, the dove becomes a black raven and the horse and the princess vanish into the sky. In a tale titled The Wonderful Bird (Romanian: ), the king sends his sons for a bird to decorate a newly built church. His elder sons return with the bird and a poultry maid, the bird does not sing and the maid seems to be despondent. The youngest prince returns incognito to his father's kingdom and tells his story: the bird begins to sing when the prince enters the church, recognizing its master. In the tale Der Vogel des Paradieses ("The Bird of Paradise"), collected by Romanian ethnologue from , the king wants to find the Bird of Paradise to become young again. The third prince's helper is an old man (implied by the narrative to be God Himself), and both quest for the Bird of Paradise, the horse of "Negru Dovedit", the saber of the Red King and the daughter of the Green King. In a variant from Bukovina translated into German as Der närrische Prinz ("The Foolish Prince"), a king has three sons, the elder two smart, but the third one considered a fool. He also has in his garden a tree that yields golden apples, which are stolen overnight by a mysterious thief. The three princes offer to keep watch on the tree ati night, but the elder two fail and the third discovers the true culprit: a bird with golden feather and golden talons. He captures the bird and presents it to the king the next morning, but lets it escape, save for some feathers. The king then orders the three princes to get him the bird. The youngest prince begins his quest by finding an injured wolf and giving it a piece of meat. After the animal regains his strength, it aids the prince in a chains of quests: for the golden bird, a golden horse ("goldenes pferde") and for the princess that lives in the land where