It was translated and published as Der goldbärtige Mann by Elisabeth Rona-Sklárek in Ungarische Volksmährchen.
[4] A dying king asked of his queen that she would never remarry, but rather devote the rest of her life to caring for their only son.
The guards noticed a gold-bearded wild man taking buckets of milk in the morning and then strangely vanishing.
One day, an old soldier told him to leave bread, bacon, and drugged wine for the man; he would eat, drink, and fall asleep.
The prince accidentally shot an arrow into the cage, and the gold-bearded man refused to give it back unless he freed him.
If the king had a ring from the princess's finger thrown in the stream, it would show what his boasting was worth.
The soldiers now claimed that the prince had said he knew of a child who could speak every language and play every musical instrument.
The king thought this was magic, which he had tried to learn, and ordered the prince to produce the child, as a third task or be dragged to death.
The sparing of the animals, and their aid, also feature in "The Three Princes and their Beasts", "The Two Brothers", and "The Queen Bee".