are no towns and no riddles, as well as no ferryman; once Beren has wrested a silmaril from the iron crown, he loses it by having his hand bitten off by a giant wolf, and ends up returning to the king with no jewels at all. The king at last allows Beren to wed his daughter, and ultimately obtains the silmaril by having his hunters track down and slay the wolf, cutting the burning jewel from its belly, a sequence which has no analogy in the German fairy tale. The king is later slain by dwarves he had employed to set the jewel into a necklace for him. The similarities which can be traced through both stories may be the result of themes common to many human stories as outlined in the book See also The Devil and His Grandmother The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars The Fish and the Ring References Studies Aarne, Antti. Der reiche Mann und sein Schwiegersohn. Vergleichende Märchenforschungen. FFC 23. Hamina: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Kustantama, 1916. Čechová, Mariana (2018). "Opowieściowy wzór Przeznaczenia bohaterów” [The novel-related pattern of protagonists’ destiny]. In: Slavia Occidentalis, nr 74/2 (grudzień), 65-76. https://doi.org/10.14746/so.2017.74.23. Čechová, Marianna, and Simona Klimkova. 2020. “Intercultural Connections in Archetypal Stories Concerning the Protagonist's Predestination”. In: Studi Slavistici 16 (2): 77–89. https://doi.org/10.13128/Studi_Slavis-7474. Tille, Václav. "Das Märchen vom Schicksalskind". In: Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde. 29. Jahrgang (1919): 22–40. External links Grimms' Fairy Tales The Devil in fairy tales German fairy tales Hell in popular culture ATU 850-999 ATU 460-499