The Child who came from an Egg

When the christening arrived, a dazzlingly beautiful woman came in a cream-colored carriage, and was dressed like the sun.

Dotterine's nurse loved her, but knew that every night a beautiful woman leaned over her; she confided in the queen, and they decided to keep it secret.

The next day, the king and all his men were captured, but the prince escaped in the confusion, and his hard-hearted stepmother was killed by a spear.

She heard that the prince had raised an army and threw out the usurper who had taken the city, but the king had died in captivity.

She told the king that Dotterine had never been his sister by birth, she was, instead, a princess from a neighboring kingdom, entrusted to his mother by her to raise to protect her from an evil wizard.

Andrew Lang included it as "The Child who came from an Egg" in The Violet Fairy Book; he listed his source as Ehstnische Märchen, which was the German translation of Kreutzwald's work, by F. Löwe.

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's tale was translated into German as Die aus dem Ei entsprossene Königstochter.