There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and ashe entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child werethere. He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and atthe top of this a little child was sitting, for the mother had fallenasleep under the tree with the child, and a bird of prey had seen itin her arms, had flown down, snatched it away, and set it on the hightree.
The forester climbed up, brought the child down, and thought tohimself: «You will take him home with you, and bring him up with yourLina.» He took it home, therefore, and the two children grew uptogether. And the one, which he had found on a tree was calledFundevogel, because a bird had carried it away. Fundevogel and Linaloved each other so dearly that when they did not see each other theywere sad.
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