This really made me interested, because the princess doesn't just sit there and take whoever it is manages to accomplish the (impossible) task set by her father, but actively chooses who it is she wants to win and helps them. The feminine power determining and choosing which masculine power will prevail. That part of the original tale is one or two lines long, but for me, it's fascinating. Secondly, the crux of the tale, for me, is that the hero cannot win the princess's hand without help from the princess herself. It is really the inciting incident that starts the story off, rather than the focus of the story, as it was in the fairy tale. As usual in fairy tales, there is no explanation as to how the king came by a glass mountain, but I wondered where he got it, and that sparked the starting point of the story. Knights from all over are invited to race a horse up the smooth glass sides of the mountain and the one who can pluck the golden apple from the princess's lap wins her hand and is heir to the kingdom. The first is the very unusual situation of the king holding a contest for his daughter’s hand by putting her on top of a glass hill with a golden apple in her lap. But there were a few things in this fairy tale that stood out for me and made me take notice. The original tale is more about the hero than the heroine, and it is a very straightforward quest story, with the hero becoming more and more accomplished, until at last he succeeds against the odds. The Golden Apple is loosely based on the Norwegian fairy tale The Princess on the Glass Hill.
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