Her life is spared when a little robber girl demands to have Gerda as a playmate. While traveling in the carriage Gerda is captured by robbers. She is offered hospitality in the palace, but instead asks for a horse, carriage and boots so she can continue looking for Kai. Gerda sneaks into the palace with the crow but finds that the prince is not Kai after all.
On the third day, a small fellow with shabby clothes walked confidently into the palace and won over the princess by listening to her. For two days men met the princess in hopes of marrying her, but upon meeting her they were tongue-tied. He explains that a clever princess in the land decided that she should get married as soon as she could find a man good for conversation. Gerda meets a crow, who tells her that he might have seen Kai. Gerda flees the garden and discovers that autumn has arrived while she was there. Gerda questions the other flowers each sings its own song, but none have anything to say about Kai. The roses assure her that Kai is not dead, since they could see all of the dead while they were underground. She remembers Kai and begins to cry, and her tears raise one of the rose bushes from the ground. The woman lets Gerda play in her flower garden day after day, where all of the flowers are in bloom, until one day she notices a rose on the woman's hat. The woman is a sorceress and wants Gerda to stay with her forever, so she causes Gerda to forget Kai, and causes all the roses in her garden to sink beneath the earth, since she knows that the sight of them will remind Gerda of her friend. Gerda drifts until she reaches the home of an old woman, who pulls her to shore with her crooked staff. The boat is unmoored, drifts away from the shore and becomes caught in the current. The shoes wash back to shore, so she climbs into a nearby boat to throw them out further. When spring arrives, Gerda goes to the river and offers it her favorite red shoes if the river will return Kai. The people of the city conclude that Kai died in the nearby river. They then fly together in the sleigh up into the clouds.
She kisses Kai to numb him from the cold, and again to make him forget about Gerda and his family.
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The sleigh drives through the town gate, going faster and faster through the countryside, then stops, and the driver reveals herself to be the Snow Queen. Kai goes out with his sled to play in the snowy market square and hitches it to a sleigh driven by a mysterious robed figure. When winter comes again, the only things he finds no fault in are snowflakes, which he studies through a magnifying glass. He destroys their window-box garden, he makes fun of Gerda's grandmother, and he no longer cares about Gerda, since everyone now appears bad and ugly to him. On a pleasant summer day, splinters of the troll's mirror get into Kai's heart and eye. Kai draws back in fear from the window.īy the following spring, Gerda has learned a song that she sings to Kai: Roses flower in the vale there we hear Child Jesus' tale! Because roses adorn the window box garden, the sight of roses always reminds Gerda of her love for Kai. Looking out of his frosted window one winter, Kai sees the Snow Queen, who beckons him to come with her. As bees have a queen, so do the snow bees, and she is seen where the snowflakes cluster the most. Gerda's grandmother tells the children about the Snow Queen, who is ruler over the "snow bees" - snowflakes that look like bees. Gerda and Kai have a window box garden to play in, and they become devoted to each other as playmates, and as close as if they were siblings. The two families grow vegetables and roses in window boxes placed on the gutters. They could get from one's home to the other's just by stepping over the gutters of each building. Years later, a little boy Kai (often spelled "Kay" or "Kaj" in translations) and a little girl Gerda live next door to each other in the garrets of buildings with adjoining roofs in a large city.
It is regularly included in selected tales and collections of his work and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories. The story centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. It was first published 21 December 1844 in New Fairy Tales. " The Snow Queen" ( Danish: Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The Snow Queen (Russian: Снежная королева, Snezhnaya koroleva) is a 1957 Soviet animated film directed by Lev Atamanov. Snezhnaya Koroleva on You Channel - English Subtittles "The Snow Queen" illustration by Rudolf Koivu
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