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Medieval riddle  
« on: Dec 3rd, 2003, 12:33pm »
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A nail has the iron.  
The iron has a horse,
the horse has a castle.
The castle has the land.
 
Sorry if I used articles "a" and "the" wrong, but I had to translate the riddle from Croatian, and it was confusing.  
I don't know an answer to this riddle. Help!
 
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 3rd, 2003, 3:32pm »
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There is a proverb in English which goes:
 
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of a horse, the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the castle was lost.
For want of a castle, the land was lost.
 
In this case, "shoe" means "horseshoe". The point of the proverb is that you should pay attention to details, because they have a way of snowballing in to major problems.
 
It sounds like this riddle of yours is along the same lines.
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