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Retold By: Leah R. There was a fine king his name was Sir Orfeo. He had a certain hobby, he could play the harp ever so beautifully. On fair weathered afternoons when lunchtime came around he and his queen, Lady Heurodis sat in the palace garden. Lady Heurodis would sit and hear Sir Orfeo play his beautiful music. It was a beautiful day then so Sir Orfeo and Lady Heuros went arm and arm into the garden. They sat against an apple tree, and as the sweet music was playing, and the scent of flower filled her nose, Lady Heurodis drifted of into deep sleep. The king knew he had duties to do, but he didn't want to leave the queen alone, and unguarded. He called for some guards to protect her and then went of into the palace. The guards stood tall, watching the queen intently. But something odd happened, they both sneezed. When you sneeze, its impossible to keep your eyes open, so for just a second both the guards had closed their eyes. The queen was gone. The guards searched every where for her under bushes and under shrubs, but the lady was gone. They knew they must tell the king. When the king found out he realized that he must go out and find her. The king had another breakthrough, its very unlikely that 2 people would sneeze at the same time. There is only one explanation, the fairy's took her. He took of his king clothes and replaced them with ordinary clothing. He went into the forest with only his harp. He walked in that forest for months looking for his wife. When the sun went down Sir Orfeo slept on the ground, and in the morning he saw 50 pearly white horses strut by on the horse was the queen. She was under the fairies spell and could not move. The king tried to get her attention but, he forgot he was in ordinary clothing and she would not notice him. He began playing his harp, the music was very beautiful and at once the queen knew it was him. However, the queen was under the fairy's spell and could not move or smile. The king followed behind the horses, hiding in bushes until they reached a mountain, instead of following on the path around the mountain they went through the mountain into the land of the fairy. It was very, very beautiful the king looked around and saw the castle of the king and queen of fairy land in the court yard of the castle was a tree. Under the tree was the queen, fast asleep, like the way she was when she was taken. The king went into the castle and started playing for the fairy king and queen. All the fairy's listened to the fantastic harp music. Everybody from all over the fairy land came to listen to the music. He was playing a very happy song, because he had found the queen. He also played sad music because the queen was under a spell. The fairy's loved the music. Especially the fairy queen, she said that it was the best. "Since your music was so grand we will grant you one wish," said the fairy king At once the king knew what he wanted, his queen. The fairies exchanged looks and gave him his queen At the castle when the king and queen returned all the guards thought that the king was not really the king! Then he played his sweet melody and they knew at once.
 * Harper In Fairyland**

The Harper in Fairyland Retold by Adrienne S. Once Upon a time, a king and queen ruled a fairly large town, with kind peasants, and beautiful creators of many things. The king had a splendid gift that allowed him to create sweet music to the ears, using his harp. He and his wife loved to have picnics by the lake and every time they had these they would sit under a tree to catch some shade. One day the rulers decided to sit under an apple tree to pick the juicy fruit and enjoy their time together. The King took out his Harp and played his most calming song that soon put his love to sleep. Then he realized that still had duties to attend to so he fetched some of his guards to watch his gorgeous wife. The king warned the Guards, "Do not take your eyes of this women, a beauty like her is to valuable to lose." Knowing the King was not kidding the guards took his advice immediately. They watched the women carefully until the both felt a strange feeling, like they were going to ,ahahahahahha chewwwwwwwwww, sneeze and in that very moment they blinked and when their eyes opened the women was gone. The guards rushed to the king. They knew he would be angry but they couldn't keep it a secret, because they had lost a queen. Immediately the King knew what had happened. "The fairy Folk must have taken her!" He said with rage. But he had a plan, he dressed as a commoner and set out with only his Harp in hand. He looked all over the town but could not seem to find her. He grew very tired so he took a rest at an apple tree, similar to the one, he and his Queen had been at. Then all of sudden he heard, clop, clop, clop. Now if you know the fairy folk they are not tiny people like everyone expects them to be. They were riding full sized horse, and along with them he saw his beautiful queen. He knew he could not be seen so he followed them silently to a hole in a large mountain. There were signs pointing every which way and he followed one that said 'Castle of the Rulers'. He soon met a King and Queen and started playing his harp for them. They had never heard such wonderful music and demanded that they reward him. They said "Young Man, what ever you wish to have we will grant it to you, we promise. Your music is sweet to our ears." So the man wished to have the women back. But the Rulers said no that would be unfair as the women is pretty and you sir are not. Yet the Man replied "But it would unfair for you to break a promise." So the man got his wish and the King and Queen of the Real world, lived happily ever after, as did the village, and of course the fairy folk moved on, but I would still be careful and never sneeze under an apple tree.