However, the empress takes the medicine and in a few days her time to give birth comes, but the child, still unborn, begins to cry.
On his advice, he prepares thoroughly: he feeds the horse for six weeks with milk-boiled barley, finds his grandfather's clothes and weapons from his youth, and only then does he set out in search of his ideal.
The first obstacle he has to pass is the estate of Gheonoaia, a being cursed by her parents, whom the prince defeats and asks her for a document with her blood in order to sanctify the peace.
The third test means confronting the wildest beasts in the world, who day and night guard the palace of eternal youth.
Coincidentally, on a hunting day, the prince enters this space and, overwhelmed by memories, sets off for his parents' house.
The prince finds Death crouched waiting in a little box, in the cellar of his parents' castle, now in ruins, and leaves himself reaped as his weak knees are trembling with fear.
[4] Furthermore, German scholar Hans-Jörg Uther, in his 2004 revision of the international index, subsumed type AaTh 470* under new tale type ATU 470B, "The Land Where No One Dies": the hero reaches the land of immortals or the land where no one dies, and marries its queen; later, he grows homesick and decides to return home, but his wife argues him against it; still, he returns home and discovers his parents' ruined house and a strange man; when the hero climbs down the horse to help the man, the man reveals he is Death.