In a dusty display cabinet in a dusty neglected museum deep in East Prussia is a giant bronze cock. Well bronze coloured, it is actually cast iron with bronze gilding. Its head is fearsome. Its eye seems to follow you around the room and its wings are so exquisitely formed you would almost think it could fly.
A giant cock, and why was it made? A simple mistake, but behind it a story of a simple girl who preferred pigs to princes, a heart warming feel good story and so I have translated the words from the original Germanic into English for your delectation.
The Reluctant Princess. (Greta and Prince Armen) a.broadsword mmxiii
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The morning light streamed across the bed chamber as Prince Armen woke.
"Good morning your highness," Greta his chambermaid chirped when she was sure he was awake.
"Uggghhhh," he replied, "My head!" he said while staring at the girl and trying to remember the previous night's party.
Greta was slim and agile with beautiful long blonde hair plaited into two pony tails.
Once his chambermaids were fat and ugly as his mother feared he would force himself upon them but now as she feared he would never desire a woman she had sought the most beautiful serving girl in the whole kingdom.
"Your father wishes to see you sire," she chirped.
"Tell him to," Armen snapped.
"Now sire," Greta cautioned, "He merely wishes you to choose a wife."
"But I am in love!" Armen protested.
"But Edward is not a girl, is he sire?" she pointed out.
Armen shook his head, how unfair, he reasoned.
"What am I to do?" he asked.
"Well you could," Greta said, "Be like Cinderella."
"What, put on a funny dress and wear glass slippers?" he asked.
"No," she said, "Tell your father you met a girl at the masked ball last night and she rushed away but left."
"Her glass slipper, she wore glass slippers and went home without one, really!" he countered, "Limping along wearing one shoe, I don't think so.".
"No, her dildo!" she laughed.
"What?" he queried.
"Her glass dildo!" Greta repeated, "You know."
"No, to be quite honest," he replied, "I don't know."
"A glass dildo, a widow's comforter." she said with an evil grin.
"So all these girls?" he asked.
"Exactly!" Greta exclaimed.
"So?" he asked.
"See who claims it and then," she suggested, "Make them show you if it fits!"
"What make them push it!" he asked.
"Exactly!" Greta exclaimed, "It will be so funny! You could have every girl in the kingdom try it!" she laughed.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because," she said enigmatically, "We use the cock off the statue in the courtyard as a pattern!"
"But it's enormous!" he said.
"Ten times you own size," she volunteered.
"Twice perhaps," he allowed.
"And there won't be a single girl or woman who can take it!" Greta laughed.
"And your point is?" he asked.
"Keep it up long enough and you will be king and can simply choose to alter the law so you can marry Edward!" she explained.
"But Edward will take it up the back easily so I may marry Edward straight away," Armen declared delightedly, "Oh Greta you are so clever!"
Greta glared, that was not her plan at all, "Yes!" she said, "Wonderful, your father wants you."
The Queen waited for Armen to leave his room before she sought out Greta, "Did it work?" she asked.
"Yes and no," Greta said, "Yes he swallowed the plan, but no, he doesn't want to stop with girls."
"Oh god," the Queen cursed, "You said the plan was foolproof."
"But your son is a bigger fool than I thought possible," Greta said sadly.
"You are very impertinent girl," the Queen insisted.
"No Ma'am, your son is very stupid." Greta sighed.
"Then you will have to marry him," the Queen insisted.
"Oh please no," Greta pleaded, "It's bad enough being his maid."
"My dear, you just have to bear him a son or two, nothing onerous." the Queen explained, "Separate rooms, a footman for a lover, why you need barely set eyes upon him.
"No," Greta insisted, "No!"
"Very well then," the Queen agreed, "I'll have the blacksmith make a brass copy of the statue's cock."
The Queen swept from the room and Greta was left alone in Armen's room.
She kicked a few garments around the floor flicked a cobweb or two and then sat on the bed.
The bed was nice and soft so she slid under the covers, and before she knew it she felt nice and safe and warm and her hand stole under her gown and she began to gently finger her tight virgin vagina until she felt lovely and moist and was able to thrust one two and then three fingers inside herself which was particularly stupid if she wanted to prove she was a virgin for any reason.
Suddenly she heard voices, Armen and Edward were outside the door, quickly she rushed from the bed and busied herself.
"Ah maid, make haste, we wish to be alone." Prince Armen commanded.
"Begging your pardon sir but the Queen she did order me to stay no matter what," Greta lied.
"Oh stay then," he snorted, "Stand in the corner and face the wall."
"The Queen says," Greta lied again.
"Bugger the Queen!" Armen laughed.
"That's incest old chap!" Edward laughed.
"Hilarious," Greta agreed.
"Where did you learn such words?" Edward asked.
"Here and there," Greta admitted.
"Well keep them to yourself!" Edward insisted, but he was too late, the Queen had returned.
"Ah, downstairs Armen if you please your father wishes an audience," she insisted.
They left Greta alone again, and she sat moodily on the chair wondering whether she should escape at night or try it in daylight on market day when it was very busy.