Le filia de un rege es deglutite per un ballena, sagemente selige un ex tres sarcophagos, e se marita con le filio del imperator Honorio.

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Honorio, un imperator multo ric, habeva solmente un filio, que ille amava multo. Le fama de iste imperatore volava per le mundo proque in omne cosas ille esseva honeste e juste. Ille gereva un guerra tamen contra un rege, le qual ille devastava.

Iste rege, post perder multe soldatos e esser confrontate con un quantitate infinite de damnos a causa del guerra, se diceva, "Io ha un sol filia, e me adversario un sol filio. Si de alicun maniera io pote facer les maritar se, io obtenera le pace perpetue."

Ille mitteva messageros al imperatore pro demandar un periodo de pace inter illes de maniera que ambes poteva parlar inter se. Le imperator concedeva a ille un anno de pace. Le rege tunc vadeva a ille personalmente e obteneva le filio del imperator pro su filia.

Tunc ille mandava que on preparava un nave que poteva transportar su filia per le mar al imperator. Post que omne esseva preparate, le puella se imbarcava con un multe grande thesauro e cinque soldatos con servos e servas. Durante que illes navigava trans le mar, un ballena grande natava verso illes con le desiro de devorar le nave.

Le marineros, vidente isto, habeva multe timor, preparava un grande foco, e die e nocte vigilava. Ma post tres dies, fatigate a causa de lor vigilias, illes dormiva. Le ballena tunc devorava le nave con omne su contento.

"Que nos accende un grande foco pro vulnerar le ballena un pauco," diceva le puella. "Illo natara al terra e de iste maniera nos potera evitar le morte." Omnes executava iste plano del puella, e le ballena, post sensar le morte, natava verso le terra.

In iste terra il habeva un certe soldato, qui ambulava presso le mar. Quando ille videva le ballena durante que illo natava e veniva al terra, ille vocava su servos, e illes tirava le ballena al terra, colpante lo con le latere plan de lor gladios. Quando le puera audiva iste ruito, illa parlava pro omnes e diceva "Carissime homines, aperi le ballena. Hic in le ventre del ballena es nos, un gruppo de filios de bon homines de bonissime sanguine."

Quando ille audiva le voce del puella, le soldato diceva a su servos, "Carissime homines, aperi le ballena de maniera que nos pote vider lo que il ha in su interior." Quando illo esseva completemente aperite, sortiva le puella, quasi morite. Tunc sortiva le soldatos e le alteres.

Illa comenciava a narrar cuje filia illa esseva, dicente que illa e le filio del imperatore Honorio iva a maritar se. Audiente isto, le soldato la retineva alique dies cum se durante que illa recoperiva su sanitate. Post isto ille mandava le puella con su soldatos al imperator.

Le imperator, quando ille la videva, diceva, "Carissime filia, que omne sia ben pro te e nunc e in perpetuo. Ma io debe dicer a te, filia, ante que tu habera mi filio in matrimonio, io te va probar per un sol acto." Ille tunc iussit que on portava tres sarcophagos al sito.

Le prime esseva de auro purissime con lapides pretiose, et ecce le inscription sur illo: "Le persona qui me aperira trovara in me lo que ille merita." E omne le sarcophago esseva plen de ossos de personas morite.

Le secunde esseva de argento purissime, plen de gemmas in omne partes, e ecce le inscription sur illo: "Le persona qui me eligera trovara in me lo que da le natura." Iste sarcophago esseva plen de terra.

Le tertie sarcophago esseva de plumbo e habeva iste inscription: "Il es preferibile selegir iste sarcophago pro obtiner le richessas del imperator."

Illa examinava attentemente le tres sarcophagos e diceva in su corde, "Deo, tu qui vide omne, da a me le gracia de eliger ben pro complir le cosa al qual io ha dedicate tante labor." Post un hora de pensar, illa clamava in un grande voce, "Ille tertie sarcophago io va a seliger."

Le imperator, post audir isto, diceva, "O bon puella, tu faceva tu selection multo prudentemente. In ille sarcophago il ha tres annellos pretiose, un pro me, un pro mi filio, e le tertie pro te como un signo de matrimonio." Ille tunc mandava que lor nuptias se celebrava e dava a illa su filio, e illes finiva lor vitas in pace.

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Filia regis a ceto deglutitur, inter tres cophinos prudenter eligit, et filium Honorii imperatoris in matrimonium iungitur.

Honorius, imperator dives valde, unum filium unicum habebat, que multum dilexit. Fama eius imperatoris per mundum volabat quod in omnibus probus erat et iustus. Tamen contra quendam regem bellum habebat et eum devastabat.

Rex hic, cum multos milites perdidit ac damna infinita ab bello cum Honorio sustenebat, cogitabat, "Unam filiam unicam habeo et adversarius meus unicum filium. Si per aliquam viam filiam meam possem filio eius in matrimonium iungere, pacem perpetuam obtinerem."

Misit nuntios ad imperatorem ut ei pacem pro tempore concederet ut cum eo personaliter loqui posset. Imperator pacem unius anni concessit. Rex tum personaliter ad eum accessit et filium suum sua filia obtulit.

Tum navem parari iussit ut filia sua per mare ad imperatorem Honorium transiret. Omnibus necessariis paratis, puella intravit habens thesaurum secum in magna copia ac milites quinque cum servis servabusque. Cum autem per mare navigarent cetus magnus ei occurrebat in mari e navem devorare volebat.

Nautae hoc percipientes timuerunt ac ignem copiosum fecerunt et die ac nocte vigilabant. Sed accidit post tres dies quod, fessi propter magnas vigilias, dormiverunt. Cetus tum navem cum omnibus contentis devoravit.

Puella cum intellexit omnes in ventre ceti esse fortiter clamabat, ad cuius clamorem omnes excitati sunt. Ait puella, "Accendamus ignem in magna copia et cetum aliquis vulneret. Ad terram tum natabit et sic per gratiam Dei mortem evadere poterimus." Ille consilium puellae per omnia impleverunt. Cetus cum mortem sensit ad terram natavit.

In hac terra erat quidem miles, qui prope mare ambulavit. Cum ergo cetum natare vidisset et ad terram venire, servos vocavet et cetum ad terram traxerunt, qui eum inceperunt cum latere gladiorum percutere. Puella cum sonitum audivisset loquebatur pro omnibus et ait, "Carissimi cetum aperite. Hic sumus in ceti ventre filii bonorum virorum de bonissimo sanguine."

Miles cum vocem puella audivisset ait servis suis, "Carissimi cetum aperite et videamus quid lateat interius." Cum vero apertus esset, puella primo exivit quasi mortua, deinde milites et ceteri.

Coepit puella narrare cuius filia esset dicens se filiumque imperatoris Honorii debere in matrimonium iunctos esse. Hoc audiens, miles eam per aliquos dies secum retinuit dum perfectam salutem recuperabat. Post hoc puellam cum militis suis ad imperatorem misit.

Imperator cum eam vidisset, ait, "Carissima filia, bene tibi sit nunc et in perpetuum. Sed tibi dicere debeo, filia, antequam filium meum habueris in maritum, te probabo per unum actum." Iussit apportare tres cophinos.

Primus erat de auro purissimo et lapidibus pretiosis, et erat talis inscriptio super cophinum: "Qui me aperiet, in me inveniet quod meruit." Et totus cophinus erat plenus ossibus mortuorum.

Secundus erat de argento purissimo, plenus gemmis in omnibus partibus, qui talem inscriptionem habebat: "Qui me elegerit, in me invieniet quod natura dedit." Hic cophinus terra plenus erat.

Tertius cophinus erat de plumbo habens inscriptionem talem: "Potius hic cophinum eligere debes ut divitias imperatoris obtineas."

Illa vero tres cophinos intime respexit et ait in corde suo, "Deus, qui omnia vides, det mihi gratiam sic eligendi ut de illo pro quo multum laboravi non deficiam." Post horam cogitionis magna voce clamabit, "Illum cophinum tertium eligo."

Imperator cum audivisset, ait "O bona puella, satis prudenter elegisti. In illo cophino sunt tres anuli pretiosi; unum pro me, unum pro filio, tertium pro te in signum matrimonii." Iussit nuptias celebrari, et tradidit ei filium suum, et sic in pace vitam finiverunt.

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A princess is swallowed up by a whale, makes a wise choice of one coffin out of three, and marries the son of the emperor Honorius.

Honorius, a truly wealthy emperor, had just a single son that he loved a lot. His fame as an emperor expanded throughout the world, because he was just and honest in everything he did. Still, he waged a war against a certain king and utterly defeated him.

This king, after losing a lot of soldiers and sustaining a lot of damage in the war with Honorius, came up with this thought: "I have only one daughter and my adversary has just one son. If I can find some way to arrange a marriage between his son and my daughter, I will be blessed with eternal peace.

He sent some messengers to the emperor and asked him for a temporary peace so that he could have a personal talk with him. The emperor offered him a year of peace. The king then went to him in person and offered his daughter to his son.

Then he ordered a ship to be prepared so that his daughter could make her way to the emperor Honorius. After everything was ready, the girl went inside with a large amount of treasure, five soldiers, and some male and female servants. While they were underway, a large whale swam toward them that wanted to swallow up the boat.

After seeing this, the sailors were frightened and made a large bonfire and stood guard both night and day. But after three days they got very tired and went to sleep. The whale then ate up the boat and everything that was in it.

The girl, once she understood they were all in the belly of the whale, started shouting and awakened everyone. Let's light up a big fire," she said, "and injure the whale a bit. It will then swim ashore and, God willing, we will not have to die." Everybody did what she said. The whale felt death coming on and swam ashore.

A certain soldier was on some nearby land and was walking close to the sea. When he saw the whale swimming toward the land, he called his servants, dragged the whale onto the beach, and started to hit it with the side of their swords. When the girl heard this, she spoke out for everyone saying, "Look, you guys, a bunch of people who are the children of some really fine families are in the belly of this whale."

Once he heard the girl's voice, he said to his servants, "Look, men, let's cut open this whale and find out what's inside." After the whale was cut open, the nearly dead girl came out first. Next the soldiers came out and then everyone else.

She then described whose daughter she was and said that she was supposed to get married to the son of the emperor Honorius. After hearing this, the soldier kept her with him for several days until she completely recovered her health. After this he sent her to the emperor with his soldiers.

When the emperor saw her, he said, "My dear girl, I hope things will always go well for you. But I must say to you that before you can get married to my son I must give you a certain test." He then had the three coffins brought out.

The first one was made of the purest gold and precious stones, and it bore this inscription: "Whoever opens me up will find inside exactly what he deserves."

The second was made up of the purest silver, filled in everywhere with gems and bearing this inscription: "Whoever opens me up will find what nature has given." This coffin was filled up with dirt.

The third coffin was made of lead and had this inscription: "You'd better select this coffin to get the wealth of the emperor."

She carefully examined all three coffins, and said with all her heart, "O God, who sees everything, give me the power to choose well so that I will not lose out on what I have worked so hard for." After an hour of thinking about things, she spoke out in a loud voice. "I'm going to choose the third coffin."

When the emperor heard this he said, "Ah, good girl! You made a very wise selection. In that coffin there are three precious rings, one for me, one for my son, and the third one for you as a symbol of your marriage." He ordered arrangements to be made for the marriage and handed his son over to her, and they lived happily ever after.