So the story that we're gonna do today comes from what tradition, Mr. Dragon? Can you tell us a little bit about the background of this story?

Sure.

It comes from, uh, Norway, and it's the same country that Norse myths, uh, about gods like Odin and Thor come from.

Uh, this is a fairy tale, and it was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, who are the, they're sort of like the Brothers Grimm of Norway.

They were the first two people to really collect fairy tales and publish them in a book and delight their entire country with their oral tradition.

What expectation do you have when you hear, "No, I won't eat the flower"?

Well, with warnings like this in fairy tales, often the, the main character sort of breaks them, and that's actually how the story progresses, right? You, you, as a listener, we think, "No, no, no, no, don't break this rule.

Don't, don't disregard the warning you're getting," but then something sort of mysterious and scary and wonderful happens, and that's how the story becomes the wonderful fairy tale it is.