The Dragonslaying Farmer

Frederick pondered about what the knight told him. He remembered seeing the princess in a royal procession when he went into the city to sell his crops. He grieved for the King and Queen for losing their child.

“But I’m only a simple farmer,” he said. “There’s nothing I can do.”

He glanced at the armor on his kitchen table. Only knights have been called to rescue the princess and the punishment for impersonating a knight was death. He wasn’t trained for battle, but he had fought off wild beasts attacking his father’s flocks when he was a child. His years of farm labor made him strong and able to withstand hardship better than most men - even knights. Therefore, he decided to put on the armor and ride his plow horse named Tommy.