A peasant has seven sons and no daughter. Finally a daughter is born, but is sickly. The father sends his sons to fetch water for her to be baptized. In their haste, they drop the
jug in the
well. When they do not return, their father thinks that they have gone off to play and curses them and so they turn into
ravens. When the sister is grown, she sets out in search of her brothers. She attempts to get help first from the
sun, which is too hot, then the
moon, which craves human flesh, and then the
morning star. The star helps her by giving her a
chicken bone and tells her she will need it to save her brothers. She finds them on the Glass
Mountain but has lost the bone, and chops off a
finger to use as a key. She goes into the mountain, where a
dwarf tells her that her brothers will return. She takes some of their
food and
drink and leaves, in the last
cup, a
ring from home. When her brothers return, she hides. They turn back into human form and ask who has been at their food. The
youngest brother finds the ring, and hopes it is their sister, in which case they are saved. She emerges, and they return home. ==Analysis==