English Translation

At first, the princess liked all this quite well. She had everything that DIE only desired her heart, the ice lock with all its splendour, a beautiful park with the most beautiful ice flowers, as beautiful as no painter could paint, beautiful clothes, lots of gold and silver. — And yet, after some guards, she was tired of the splendor and bored very much. From morning to night she was alone. No one laughed with her, no one could complain about her suffering. When she walked through the large, empty rooms and the mute ice puppets looked at her, she cried in bitter regret. - Often in her distress she called for the old BLUME male, with the intention of being only always good to the people. However, no male appeared, no gate opened and she had to stay in the ice house with her cold and stiff companions. So the princess now lived for years lonely and abandoned and had become quiet and modest in time. She had already given up all hope of liberation. Then it happened that just at the winter solstice a poor maid of labor rose up to fetch a fir tree for the sick mother. There was once a poor It got lost and came thus before the white castle. — At first it dared not, woodcutters, which day by day go on, because such a glorious thing the maid had never seen. He went to the forest to see the park with the many flowers of snow and ice. To earn the maid's bread. His heart was now grasping, knocking at the gate of the castle and wanted to ask for a woman and a little girl only ice flower for the little mother, when the big gate had already sprung up and he had lived at house, the astonished girl could pass through. But since no one saw it, it rested and for these two he had to sleep a little on a bench and also take care. One day - the princess found the little, hearty Māgdiein. She could have it before on a Sunday morning - the whole family hardly grasped the feider and the joy, after all it was the first human child that met her. She little Mādel jumped around funny and chased butterflies after her. Oh, that was the exhausted girl in her castle and kept waking up at his bed--a joy and a fun game, but the little lise didn't realize that she was until it woke up. - Then it had to tell her about the sick little mother and who was getting farther and farther away from the way, and soon she had her parents from the need at home. - And so it also told, that it was all alone on its eyes. Thus slowly the day tended and the darkness had made as if to search for a fir tree for the festival of light. The princess, a ghost over the country. Only then did lise realize that she had committed suicide and that the girl had soon become fief, was very touched and began to weep bitterly. As she now sat there and did not know at all what all her belongings were for him to help the poor day-worship family. - In which it was to be made, she saw that from a purple flower a fairy came out and farewell hour brought out a delicate fir tree and adorned it with light steps. it with many, many lights to give it to the maid. When the bright, warm glow of the many lights lit up, there was a tremendous noise, "Don't be afraid," she said, "I want to protect you, it shouldn't hurt you, and it was as if the whole ice lock was breaking and melting. — And it happened," and while she was speaking it, she was really enough to hold a golden yellow, in place of the ice lock was a magnificent castle of marble and flower, which shone in the evening red like a flashing fireball, The Good Fairy Gold there. Through the hall came a wondrous prince. He carried a Wam out suddenly disappeared and lise wondered not a little. "Ah, where shall red velvet with heavy gold embroidery. He smiled quite fondly at the princess now I begin here," she said quietly to herself, but still she thought to herself and said: "Don't be afraid, for I come to tell you your deliverance. the flower to her red jacket and went on and on into the forest. There you should have given away your belongings without hesitation, to find the little girl glowing- her tired limbs once rest, and Iise lay under a tree to make light. Look, I wanted to free around you many years ago, heard God and fell asleep gently. The rays of the sun were already searching for one of your heart's colds and, in order to test you, turned me into the path through the trees as Illse first woke up. She stood up, looked for berries, old men. You were now really as repulsive and evil as the people from around the hunger to satisfy, then sat down on the forest meadow and even knew how to tell you. I now had the power to keep you trapped in the ice lock not what it should do. She took the gald yellow flower and turned it out of long and could find with joy that your icy heart became soft and you always resided around, breathed in in between the scent of the flower and expelled the repentance padding. thus time itself. But hardly had she turned the flower three times, as on But now in the time of the festival of light everything is forgotten. I beg you, once a little dwarf with a long beard stood before llse. "How can my wife and a good ruler" I serve," he said. "Thou shalt serve me, how strange," replied Lise, the princess said with joy, and there was such a magnificent high "but if thou art, thou shalt not have come to me in vain." Make time, as no one has seen in the land yet, adorning the banquet hall that I come to Huse." "Unfortunately, I cannot fulfil this wish," many fir trees with thousands of lights in memory of the deliverance that spoke of the Wout, "but I will tell thee that the flower is a magic flower, princess. "That's beautiful," said Iise, "but now I've got 50 51.