Karanggayam
Once upon a time, there lived a poor widow with her daughter on the back of big Coral.
They lived in the Forest where there was full of Gayam trees(Gayam was the name of fruit). Their house was a little cottage and It was very small. They were poor and
did not have neighbor but they loved each other. Her mother always took care
her daughter. Her name was Nimas Ayu. Nimas was a good and kind girl, so her
mother love her very much. She teached Nimas to became kind girl and she should helped everyone which was need to helped.
After Nimas
was adult, she became a kind woman and beautiful. She was tall. She had a long
hair. She always helped people who need helped if they were sick, they were astray in the forrest, she gave some foods to them, and she took care the sick
animals.
One day,
there was a Prince was hunting in the forrest. He
was handsome and he was kind. His name was Arang. Suddenly, he was astray with
his guard and his friends. He did not
know where is the way to back castile. He searched the way to exit the forest but he always got Gayam trees. He confuced and he rather worried. He was afraid if he would never see his parent
again.
”Lord, I hope, I was helped by someone,” He make a wish to God, ”If He is man, he will become my brother, if she
is a woman so she will become my wife.”
Until the
day was night, Prince Arang felt a sleep and fell a sleep on the back of coral.
The next
morning, when Nimas searched the woods. He was suprised. There was a man was
sleepin on the back coral.
”Oh God,
What happen with him?” screamed Nimas.
Nimas’s scream
made Pince Arang woke up from his sleep.
”Who are
you?” asked Prince Arang.
Nimas just
smiled sweetly and she answered softly, ”My name is Nimas Ayu, I live on the
back this corral.”
”I am
Arang, unhappily I was not lucky,” said Prince Arang sadly.
”Why are
you look sad?” asked Nimas.
”I am astray with my guard and my friends. I do not know where is the way to back palace. I have search the way to exit this forest but I can not.”
Nimas smiled to Prince Arang, ”Don’t worry. I am with u and everything gonna be fine.”
Then Nimas asked Prince Arang to went her house. Nimas Gave
him a food.
Nimas’s mother asked Prince Arang to stayed for a while, and next day Nimas
would delivered Prince Arang to back.
”It was Gayam. The fruit of Gayam Trees.”
Pince
Arang confused.
”I’m so sorry. I just give you th food like this.”
”It’s never mine, I say thank you very much. It is very delicious, ” said
Price Arang Happy.
Because of the kind of Nimas, it made Arang loved her because She was
interest to him.
>>> At The Palace...
In the palace was having trouble there. They were afraid and worried.
”My lovely husband, I am afraid if Arang meet
wrong thing it will not meet him again,” said the king’s wife.
Base on meeting from a right hand’s King and Patih, It made a sayembara.
The next morning, every people were collected in the centre of palace. Palace man read something to them.
”Attention please!!
Prince Arang was lost. Please search him, dead or alive..
If He is man, he will become his
brother, if she is a woman so she will become his wife.”
Every people wanted to become Prince Arang’s brother and wife. But, they did not meet him.
Every people thought that Prince Harry was not alive.
And finally, Prince Arang back to
his Palace. Every people were happy to hear that was a good news.
”Arang, why can you life if we are lost contact with you?” said Price Arang’s Father.
”I am so sorry and I have helped by beautiful kind woman. She took care of
me and she live in forrest”
The king
smiled, ”who is her?”
”now, she is my girl friend. I wanna be his husband, because I
love her very much, Dad.”
”Don’t say that, It is not our rule,” said The King.
”What’s is
the reason, Dad?” asked Arang, ”In the sayembara
has said that If He is man, he will become my brother, if she is a woman so she
will become my wife.”
The King did not fulfill his promise.
He was forgot his promise. He just wanted Prince Arang married with Rich woman,
not poor woman like Nimas.
Prince Arang was sad and
he was very disapointed with her Father. He thought that he would live
together with Nimas because it was a promise. He had think that he would leave
the palace.
The next
morning, he escape from his palace and run away to forest. The guard palace did
not know because he undercovered as a palace gardener.
He went to
forest and he married with Nimas. They lived together on the back of Coral with it
was surrounded
by Gayam Trees. They lived until they were old and they had many of children.
The King was sad because he was lost his
child. And his kingdom fell out but Prince Arang and Nimas’s place was grew up, there became a small village where the leader was Prince Arang. Because
of the palace fell out from greedy King
who was Prince Arang’s father, the citizen from Palace moved, and they became Prince Arang’s citizen in that small village.
Now, we know, there village’s name is ’Karanggayam’.
It from ’Karang’ and ’gayam’.
’Karang’, in English is Coral and ’Gayam’, because it has many Gayam
trees.
>>..(tha^__^nkz)..<<
Narrative Text of The legend of Karanggayam
Written by
Name : Nur Arifta Lantiningrum
NPM : 101.0302.093
ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT
FACULTY
OF EDUCATION AND TEACHERS TRAINING
TIDAR
UNIVERSITY OF MAGELANG
2013
