{"id":5441,"date":"2007-09-04T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-06T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T17:10:43","slug":"contes-la-llegenda-de-sant-jordi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teiamoner.net\/en\/contes-la-llegenda-de-sant-jordi\/","title":{"rendered":"Short stories. The legend of St. George"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Puppets are special. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Pedagogical suitcase<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Short stories. The legend of St. George<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;\">\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teiamoner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/image356.gif\" width=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><i>SCENE 1<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>NARRATOR:<\/b>Legend has it that in medieval times, the inhabitants of a region were very frightened because a horrible monster, a fierce and terrible dragon, lived very close to the population.\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nThe fearsome dragon crunched whole flocks, destroyed crops, burned forests and devoured all the people it caught clueless in the middle of the forest or on the roads. The inhabitants of that region lived in constant fear. So much so that one day the king thought long and hard and found a solution.<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><i>SCENE 2<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b>Come on, please come on, come closer\u2026<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nDear villagers! The only way the dragon will leave us alone is to have food every day. So every morning we will bring you fresh teak, that is, one person. <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILLAGE 1:<\/b>It can not be!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILLAGE 2:<\/b>It is impossible!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b>Surely, if the monster gets crowded at breakfast, we can rest easy for the rest of the day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILATANS:<\/b>Very good idea! Very good idea!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILLAGE 1:<\/b>What a clever king!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILLAGE 2:<\/b>How clever!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILLAGE 3:<\/b>Our king is a great thinker !!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILLAGE 1:<\/b>Very good, very good!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>VILATANS:<\/b>Long live the King, long live our King !!!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b>We will start tomorrow! Let&#039;s see\u2026 Any volunteers?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>(the villagers disappear) <\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b>Any volunteers? <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><\/b>Very well, Seeing the predisposition we will do it by lot!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><i>SCENE 3<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>NARRATOR:<\/b>This draw was made by putting all the names of the villagers inside a box and the king took it without looking. Every day a villager marched to the dragon&#039;s lair.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>You see a forest and the villagers walk one by one, and enter the dragon&#039;s lair.<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nBut one day it happened to the King&#039;s daughter, the Princess.<b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><i>SCENE 4<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING: <\/b>The Princess !!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nIt is not possible! Are you sure you haven&#039;t cheated?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nI need a hero to kill the dragon, <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\ni can&#039;t send my daughter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>(takes out his cell phone and calls Superman&#039;s answering machine)<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><\/b><i>(makes another call)<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>(Hercules comes out, on one side)<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nHercules?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>HERCULES:<\/b> Yes! The strongest! <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b> Could you kill a dragon?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>HERCULES:<\/b> I don\u2019t work with dragons! <i>(leaves)<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b><i>(call back)<\/i>James Bond? <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><\/b><i>(James Bond appears)<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>JAMES BOND: <\/b>Bond, James Bond!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b>Could you kill a dragon?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>JAMES BOND: <\/b>Is this dragon a spy?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING: <\/b>No <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>JAMES BOND:<\/b> Do you have Russian contacts? <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b> No<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>JAMES BOND:<\/b> What a shame, I don\u2019t care! <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING: <\/b>I have no hero on hand.<b><\/b>I&#039;ll have to send the girl !.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>(calls daughter).<\/i>Queen, queen, I mean, princess!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><\/b><i>(Princess appears)<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>PRINCESS: <\/b>What do you want, my father? <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b>I have to let you know it&#039;s your turn to go to the dragon&#039;s lair!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>PRINCESS:<\/b>But, I\u2019m your daughter, I can\u2019t go there!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>KING:<\/b>But you are a villager, and you enter the draw!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>PRINCESS:<\/b><i>(Crying)<\/i>Alas, stop, what a fear!<b>&nbsp;<\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>SCENE 5<\/b><b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>NARRATOR: <\/b>And the frightened princess walked towards the forest,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nwhere the dragon lived.<b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>The Dragon appears and dances. <\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>The princess appears walking through the forest. <\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>The Dragon chases her to catch her and the Princess runs.<\/i><b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>DRAC:<\/b> Ha, ha, ha, here&#039;s a breakfast! <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>PRINCESS:<\/b> Alas, alas, what fear!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>DRAC:<\/b> Don&#039;t run, I&#039;ll catch you! <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>PRINCESS:<\/b> Alas, alas, what fear!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>DRAC:<\/b> How hungry you make me come!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>PRINCESS:<\/b> Alas, alas, what fear!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>(Sant Jordi appears)<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>SAINT GEORGE: <\/b>I&#039;m already here, dear princess, <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nto save you from the hungry beast!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>DRAC:<\/b> And who are you? <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>SAINT GEORGE: <\/b>I am St. George the well-born,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nThat with my sword and my shield,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nFrom the Far East I now come<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nWhere I killed Moors, twenty-five !.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>DRAC:<\/b> What a fear you make me!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>SAINT GEORGE: <\/b>Ah yes? Fera maligne, <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nGet ready to die<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nThat for your crimes you have become worthy<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nwhat a nail!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nOn guard !, ugly dragon!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nI&#039;m not afraid of you<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nBecause I know you\u2019re a cardboard tiger!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>Saint George and the Dragon fight.<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>Saint George kills the dragon, and a rose emerges from the wound. <\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>Saint George gives the flower to the princess.<\/i><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>NARRATOR:<\/b>Clever troubadours, rhapsodists and minstrels, <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nthey recounted the death of the dragon everywhere. <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nThe great event spread throughout the land <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nand no one ever forgot him again.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><\/b>Lots of books were written telling the story<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nand as a sign of love they have since been given away.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><\/b>And here ends this story.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nSave it all in memory.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nBecause Sant Jordi, which the shield wields,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\nis the patron saint of Catalonia!<b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b><i>THE END<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"Estilo4\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<i>The recording of the CD that accompanies this story is made by Miquel Espinosa.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Voices: 3rd year ESO students from IES Ramon Casas i Carb\u00f3 in Palau-solit\u00e0 i Plegamans and Teia Moner - 2005<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"Estilo4\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Estilo4\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<b>SOME IMAGES OF THE SHADOWS MADE BY TEIA MONER <\/b><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teiamoner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/image359.gif\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teiamoner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/image361.gif\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teiamoner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/image363.gif\" width=\"232\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teiamoner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/image365.gif\" width=\"241\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puppets are special. 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