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DeMark
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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! Iron (Fe)
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Icarus
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Re: Medieval riddle
« 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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