The Princess and the White Bear King (book and cd)

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Yes!’ the old hag said, ‘she might have that leave and, welcome, but she herself must lull him off to sleep and wake him in the morning.’ Yes!’ they said. ‘He passed by here this morning early, but he went so fast you’ll never be able to catch him up.’ That day it was just the same story with the napkin as with the scissors and the flask. When it was about dinner-time the princess went outside the castle, took out the napkin and said, ‘Napkin, spread yourself out and be covered with all dainty dishes,’ and there was meat enough, and to spare, for hundreds of men; but the princess sat down to table by herself. Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen, eds. (1852). Norske folke-eventyr (2ed.). Christiania: Johan Dahl. pp.466–467. (variant) Grundtvig, Svend. Gamle Danske Minder I Folkemunde. Ny samling, 1ste og 1det hefte. Akademisk Forlag, 1970 [Kjøbenhavn: C. G. Iversen, 1856]. Annex.

According to Jan-Öjvind Swahn [ sv]'s study on some 1,100 variants of Cupid and Psyche and related types, he concluded that the bear is the "most usual" form of the supernatural husband in Germanic and Slavonic areas. [11] She asked the old woman if she could give the princess the flask, and the old woman have her permission to do so. Storie di Amore e Psiche. A cura di Annamaria Zesi. Roma: L'Asino d'Oro Edizioni. 2010. pp. 220-221. ISBN 978-88-6443-052-2. Valemon is a character in Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, and a portion of the comic is set in his kingdom. The princess took the flask, thanked them, and set off again through the woods. After travelling all day and through the next night, she came to a third hut with an old woman and a little girl.

As for the girl, she ran about clipping in the air and playing with a pair of golden scissors, which were of that kind, that silk and satin stuffs flew all about her if she only clipped the air with them. Where they were, there was never any want of clothes. Similar elements to this story appear in 2 episodes of The StoryTeller episodes " Hans My Hedgehog" which involve a princess marrying an enchanted man who removes his animal form at night and also in " The True Bride" where exchanges for a night with a missing prince are met with a sleeping potion prompting prisoners to inform the prince of the weeping of the True Bride each night. This retelling of "East of the Sun & West of the Moon" is all over the place, it mixes three tales together and some elements don't quite fit in, such as the climbing of the glass mountain that doesn't belong here. Now, once on a time there was, as there well might be, a king. He had two daughters who were ugly and bad, but the third was as fair and soft as the bright day, and the king and everyone was glad of her. So one day she dreamt of a golden wreath that was so lovely she couldn’t live until she had it. But as she could not get it, she grew sullen and wouldn’t so much as talk for grief, and when the king knew it was the wreath she sorrowed for, he sent out a pattern cut just like the one that the princess had dreamt of, and sent word to goldsmiths in every land to see if they could get the like of it. So the goldsmiths worked night and day; but some of the wreaths she tossed away from her, and the rest she would not so much as look at.

That hut, you must know, was all so full of small bairns, and they all hung round their mother’s skirts and bawled for food. Then the goody put a pot on the fire full of small round pebbles. When the princess asked what that was for, the goody said they were so poor they had neither food nor clothing, and it went to her heart to hear the children screaming for a morsel of food; but when she put the pot on the fire, and said— Kristensen, Evald Tang. Gamle jyske folkeviser samlede af folkemunde: isaer i Hammerum-Herred. Gyldendal, 1876. pp. 327-334.

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The little girl there ran about, playing and clipping the air with a pair of golden scissors. As she clipped, silk and satin flew all about. Where the scissors went, there was never any want of clothes.

Jessica Day George's novel Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon) references White-Bear-King-Valemon; when an enchanted bear requests the woodcutter's youngest daughter to live with a palace for one year, the woodcutter's wife recalls the story of King Valemon. [25] Next day the princess went under the window again, and began to pour out drink from her flask. It frothed like a brook with ale and wine, and it was never empty. So when the old hag saw that, she was all for buying it, for she said,— Grundtvig, Svend. Gamle Danske Minder I Folkemunde. Ny samling, 1ste og 1det hefte. Kjøbenhavn: C. G. Iversen, 1856. pp. 35-45. The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 425A, "The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom". According to Hans-Jörg Uther, the main feature of tale type ATU 425A is "bribing the false bride for three nights with the husband". [9] In fact, when he developed his revision of Aarne-Thompson's system, Uther remarked that an "essential" trait of the tale type ATU 425A was the "wife's quest and gifts" and "nights bought". [10] Motifs [ edit ] Everything was soon set right between them, and if they could get rid of the old hag he would be free. King Valemon had the carpenters make a trapdoor on the bridge over which the bridal train had to pass, and it was custom for the bride and her friends to be at the head of the train.This woman,” she said, “who has to go so far on such difficult paths, may well suffer much. She will need these scissors more than I do to cut out clothes.” Well!’ the old hag said, ‘she might have that leave and welcome, but she must herself lull him off to sleep and wake him in the morning.’ But that night, there was one of the workmen who worked in a room next to theirs. He heard the weeping and knew how things stood, and next day he told the prince that she must be come, that princess who was to set him free.