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Week 11 Story: The Lovers that Killed the Warrior's


An African figure of a man using a bow and arrow.
A long time ago there lived two different tribes in Africa. There located fairly close to one another but were separated by a large river. For many decades the two had been at war with each other. Each tribe hated the other more than anything in the world. This all changed one day when the prince of the Gondula tribe, known by many around to be some of the most ferocious warriors, caught a glimpse of a daughter of the rival tribe the Halla's. The Halla's were well knows throughout the continent as a kind people, always willing to trade and help, besides with the Gondula that is. One the prince had seen the young girl he new he had to have her. The king was all to happy for this arrangement hoping that it would bring peace to the two tribes. The king was right and once the two were wed there was a time of peace and tranquility between the two tribes. The king's daughter remarkably was fine with the arranged marriage and grew to love the prince..... for a while.

One day the young bride was out gathering water by the river and noticed a man across on the other side doing the same. She instantly was struck by awe. He was perfect to him in everyway. She set off to make her way to the other side to introduce herself. The two came to get to know one another and wished that they were able to become wed and spend the rest of their lives together. This is when they came up with a plan to do so. The bride to the prince went back to her home tribe with her new lover. They had planned that they would make her look beaten and tell the tribe of how abusive her husband was to her.

Upon hearing this the tribe was enraged and immediately grabbed arms and set across the river for battle. They caught the Gondula's off guard and slaughtered the whole tribe. The two lovers ran off together to start their own life in fright that the Halla's may lose the fight. It was known from that point on that the Halls's defeated the Gondula's, thus everyone knew that even the most docile of people could become fierce worriers if they had something worth fighting for.

Bibliography 
 Eskimo Folk-Tales by Knud Rasmussen with illustrations by native Eskimo artists (1921)

Author's Notes
This story comes from the original Inuit story found in my part B reading. In the story the woman from the opposite tribe lied to her own and caused the slaughter of almost all the woman in the tribe. Three survived and told the men that were out hunting what had happened. The men and woman made arrows and such to go beat the other tribe. This tribe was known as the man eaters. After being surrounded the man eaters were defeated. The woman that had lied and got the woman killed was drug away and killed by two men. 

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  1. Dora ValadezNovember 9, 2017 at 1:16 PM

    This was a very interesting story, I liked how you gave the bride a happier ending for her. Something I found interesting was that the bride has fallen in love with the man, in a similar manner that the prince fell in love with her. Something else I liked is that you included a moral to this story and to end off on, it worked really well and fit the story nicely. Keep up the good work!

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  2. UnknownNovember 12, 2017 at 10:32 PM

    Hi Kasey!
    You addition of a love interest to your own version of this story made a lot of sense. It gave the Halla tribe motive to go and destroy the Gondula tribe. Deception was a big part of this stories plot and it proved a point in the end. Something I would suggest is to go back and reread your story because I caught a few grammatical errors as well as spelling ones too.

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