Three tales of quick tongues and contented hearts. In Taming the Shrew, Boots answers the scolding Princess point for point with a pocketful of found things — an ozier band, a broken plate, a dead magpie, two ram's horns and a worn-out shoe-sole — until she has not a word left to say. Gudbrand on the Hill-Side trades his cow down through a horse, a pig, a goat, a sheep and a goose to a cock he must sell for food, and his goodwife is glad of every single bargain. Not a Pin to Choose Between Them follows a wife's disastrous cow-sale and her husband's search for three goodies sillier than his own.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:05 Taming the Shrew
3:17 Gudbrand on the Hill-Side
14:36 Not a Pin to Choose Between Them
From Popular Tales from the Norse (first edition, 1859), translated by George Webbe Dasent from the tales collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe — a fresh in-house modernised rendering.
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