A sportsman's snipe teaches him that every parent thinks their own children prettiest; a lassie whose godmother is the Virgin Mary herself endures years of trial in silence and is restored at last; three strange aunts save a lazy spinner from the work she dreaded, and explain the shapes that work has given them; the cock, the cuckoo, and the black-cock settle between them who shall have the cow; and stingy Gertrude, who grudged our Lord and St Peter a cake, is changed into the woodpecker. Five tales from Dasent's collection.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:06 One's Own Children Are Always Prettiest
1:16 The Lassie and Her Godmother
13:23 The Three Aunts
24:07 The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Black-Cock
25:09 Gertrude's Bird
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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