The Three Goats Gruff; Littlest, Billy, and Capricorn – The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Capricorn
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:I_Ain%27t_Afraid_of_No_Goats
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Littlest_Gruff_Goat
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Billy_the_Gruff_Goat
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Capricorn_the_Gruff_Goat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Billy_Goats_Gruff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_(astrology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricornus
Ug the Troll needs your help. Three goat brothers keep walking all over his briadge, leaving their muddy footprints on it. Now they have thrown Ug out of his den. He needs you to talk to the goats.
The thee Gruff Goat brothers; Littlest, Billy, and Capricorn are from Mooshu. They are lost in a world that wants to sacrifice them and use them for strange rituals. Capricorn believes that Ug’s bridge will get them back to Mooshu. Littlest likes Ug’s den as it a great hide-out protects them from wizards and monsters.
“What are you? A WIZARD! You won’t be using me for your strange rituals. Hi-ya!” – Littlest Gruff Goat
“Will the torments of this strange land never cease? No wonder we’re all going mad. But I have wits enough to deal with you!” – Billy the Gruff Goat
“I had it all wrong. I had thought us brothers lost travelers thrown astray by Spiral tides and stranded in this tormented land. But now the veil has been lifted and I see. I am not a victim of the Myth Monsters. I AM a Myth Monster. I am Capricorn, the celestial goat who chews on the heavens as though they were an old tin can. I have bested the ancient enemy, stolen his Bridge. And now I will trample you.” – Capricorn the Gruff Goat
Once you have defeated the three, they talk of making it back to Mooshu in time for the Year of the Goat Monk.
“Three Billy Goats Gruff” (Norwegian: De tre bukkene Bruse) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844. The first version of the story in English appeared in George Webbe Dasent’s translation of some of the Norske Folkeeventyr, published as Popular Tales from the Norse in 1859. The heroes of the tale are three male goats who need to outsmart a ravenous troll to cross the bridge to their feeding ground.
The story introduces three billy goats (male goats), sometimes identified as a youngster, father and grandfather, but more often described as brothers. In other adaptations, there is a baby or child goat, mama goat and papa goat. But since they are male, it is either they are all brothers, a youngster, father, and grandfather, or a father and two sons.
“Gruff” was used as their family name in the earliest English translation by Dasent and this has been perpetuated; but this has been pointed out as a mistranslation of the Norwegian name Bruse which was here employed in the sense of “tuft, clump” of hair on the forehead of domesticated livestock. The word can mean “fizz” or “effervescence”, but also a “frizzle (of hair)” according to Brynildsen’s Norwegian-English dictionary, but the secondary meaning is better explained as “a tuft/clump of hair on a horse (or buck goat)” in the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (SNL), and Ivar Aasen’s Norwegian-Danish dictionary.
(Three billy goats gruff, in english).
In the story, the main characters are the three billy goats (possibly mountain goats because they are wild). They live in a valley. The name of all three goats are “Gruff”. At the beginning of the story, is little to no grass for them to eat near where they live. (In the valley, there is almost no grass left.) So the goats must cross a river to get to “sæter” (a meadow) or hillside on the other side of a stream to eat and fatten themselves up. They must first cross a wooden bridge, under which lives a fearsome and hideous troll, who is so territorial that he eats anyone who tries to cross the bridge. (However, the goats see that it is not safe to go across the bridge. Because a troll lives under there and he loves to eat goats.)
Capricorn (♑︎) is the tenth astrological sign in the zodiac out of twelve total zodiac signs, originating from the constellation of Capricornus, the goat. It spans the 270–300th degree of the zodiac, corresponding to celestial longitude. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this area from around December 22 to January 19.
Capricornus is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for “horned goat” or “goat horn” or “having horns like a goat’s”, and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish.
Capricornus is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy. Under its modern boundaries it is bordered by Aquila, Sagittarius, Microscopium, Piscis Austrinus, and Aquarius. The constellation is located in an area of sky called the Sea or the Water, consisting of many water-related constellations such as Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus. It is the smallest constellation in the zodiac.
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