the norwegian folktale "" (asbjornsen and moe's "norske folkeeventyr" "ny samling" no. 26) is classed at 922 also matches closely in riddle content. the tale appears in english under the title "the priest and the clerk" (dasent tr.) or "the parson and the sexton" (patrick shaw iversen tr.). in the folktale, a priest who is in the habit of shouting everyone else to swerve when he is travelling the road gets in trouble by behaving the same way before the king, who threatens to defrock him if he is not competent to answer them. the priest condescendingly says a fool can stump ten wise men with questions, and refuses to the king, so his clerk makes the appearance. when asked "how far the east is from west?" the clerk replies "a day's journey," for that is the course the sun takes between rising and setting. the king's worth? -- no more than 29 silver pieces ("") since christ was worth thirty pieces of silver. the king's thought? -- that the priest stands before him, but he must stand corrected for he is the clerk. by the king's decree, the clerk was appointed priest and the priest demoted to clerk.