Sharing PowerPoint presentations created by each partner school team in which the fairy-tales illustrate the ancient and intimate connection between language and landscape

2. Stan Bolovan's wife was sad,
though they were prosperous.
Finally, she confessed that
she was grieved that they had
no children. Stan visited a
wise man and begged him for
children, and ignored his
warnings about feeding them
all. He returned to find his wife
delighted: they had a hundred
children.

4. Soon, they found they could not feed
them all, and Stan set out to find food. He
found a flock of sheep and hoped to steal
some, but a dragon stole animals and milk
from the flock. He asked, and the shepherds
promised him a third of the flock if he rid
them of the dragon. He met up with the
dragon and said he ate rocks by night and
flowers by day and would fight. He set a
contest: he squeezed buttermilk from
cheese, and the dragon tried to squeeze it
from a rock, and had to own he was better.
The dragon offered him service with his
mother, who would pay him sacks of ducats.

6. The mother set them two trials:
her son threw a staff as far as he
could, and then it was Stan's
turn. First, he told the dragon he
was afraid that he would kill him
with the force; then he claimed
to be waiting until the moon got
out of the way. The mother then
sent them to fetch water, and
Stan could not have carried the
skins she sent, but when he said
it was too much bother and
threatened to carry the stream
instead, the dragon carried them
for him. The mother then sent
them to gather wood, and Stan
started to tie trees together,
declaring he would carry back
the entire wood, and the dragon
brought back wood for him,
before he uprooted the forest.
The mother told her son to crack
open his head in the night. Stan
hid under a pig's trough and was
not harmed.

7. They gave him gold to go away,
which he could not carry, but he said he
wanted to stay in her service, because his
friends would be ashamed of him, to
carry so little; they urged him to go, and
he went on the condition that the dragon
carry back the gold for him. He did not
want to go all the way home with the
dragon, so that it would not know where
he lived, but his hungry children came
running, and were so hungry they
shouted for the dragon's flesh. It dropped
the gold and ran away.

8. The Romanian fairy-tale, entitled “Stan Bolovan", was shared to
you by us, the pupils of the 6th class C, members of the project team.
It illustrates, no doubts, the ancient and intimate connection between
language and landscape.