A poor husbandman's youngest daughter rides away on a great White Bear who is a Prince by night, and loses him by one look and three drops of tallow from a candle. Then she walks the world to find him — past three old hags with their gifts of gold, on the backs of the East Wind, the West Wind and the South Wind, and at last on the North Wind himself, who blows her to the castle that lies east o' the sun and west o' the moon. There she buys three nights beside her sleeping Prince with a gold apple, a gold carding-comb and a gold spinning-wheel, and wins him back at the washing of a shirt that no troll hands can whiten. The shelf's great romantic tale, from Dasent's collection.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Told as printed in Dasent's text. At the close, the stepmother, the long-nosed Princess and the whole pack of trolls burst in their rage at the washing ordeal — the tale's own supernatural ending, worked by no hand and no weapon; no one in the tale strikes, wounds or kills another.
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.
Narrated by Benedetto. Music: opening and closing theme, "Convergence at Dusk 2".
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