A fisherman caught a golden fish, who gave him and his wife a rich castle on the condition that he will not tell anyone how he had gotten it.
The fish saw it was fated to fall into the fisherman's hand and told him to take it home and cut it into six pieces, giving two to his wife and two to his horse.
When they were grown, the gold children left home, telling their father that the lilies would wither if they were ill and die if they were dead.
People mocked them because of their golden appearance, and one child went back to his father, but the other went on, through a forest filled with robbers.
He covered himself with bearskins to hide the gold from the thieves, and wooed a maiden.