1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,074 Subtitles downloaded from Podnapisi.NET 2 00:00:09,070 --> 00:00:12,741 When people told themselves their past with stories... 3 00:00:13,025 --> 00:00:15,253 explained their present with stories... 4 00:00:15,343 --> 00:00:18,092 foretold the future with stories... 5 00:00:19,497 --> 00:00:23,122 the best place by the fire was kept for... 6 00:00:23,892 --> 00:00:25,118 The Storyteller. 7 00:00:39,195 --> 00:00:44,195 - Hans My Hedgehog - Sync and corrections by R3V0LV3R. 8 00:00:49,021 --> 00:00:50,498 Story... 9 00:00:53,935 --> 00:00:58,321 imagine a cold night and a dark night... 10 00:00:58,409 --> 00:01:00,159 a night like this one. 11 00:01:00,567 --> 00:01:03,839 And imagine a bed with a farmer and his wife fast asleep... 12 00:01:03,923 --> 00:01:05,717 snuggling up for warmth. 13 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,149 And in this bed, the farmer, shivering, reaches out for his wife. 14 00:01:12,033 --> 00:01:14,827 But instead of a head, he finds a foot... 15 00:01:14,909 --> 00:01:17,863 because his missus is rubbing noses with their dog... 16 00:01:17,945 --> 00:01:20,775 who sleeps every night at the end of the bed. 17 00:01:21,701 --> 00:01:23,257 What kind of dog? 18 00:01:23,698 --> 00:01:26,163 I don't know. A dog, some kind of dog. 19 00:01:26,255 --> 00:01:29,323 Some kind of dog? Terrific story. 20 00:01:30,330 --> 00:01:31,761 Should I bark? 21 00:01:31,848 --> 00:01:33,757 Oh, no! 22 00:01:33,926 --> 00:01:37,470 - Just for tonight. - Don't be dense, woman. 23 00:01:37,561 --> 00:01:39,992 One night won't hurt. It might work. 24 00:01:40,518 --> 00:01:43,312 Sleeping upside down? What good's that gonna do? 25 00:01:43,394 --> 00:01:47,984 - Midwife said it sometimes helps. - You're not gonna get a child. 26 00:01:48,667 --> 00:01:52,212 If you want company, get a widow woman up from the village. 27 00:01:52,663 --> 00:01:55,890 Now come up this end. I'm proper frozen. 28 00:01:58,895 --> 00:02:02,678 But the farmer's wife didn't want no widow for company... 29 00:02:02,770 --> 00:02:04,406 she wanted a baby. 30 00:02:04,888 --> 00:02:07,921 And she'd wanted this child for what seemed a lifetime... 31 00:02:08,004 --> 00:02:10,719 until she couldn't bear to watch the lambs born... 32 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,750 or the calves come, or the eggs hatch. 33 00:02:12,838 --> 00:02:14,712 It hurt her so. 34 00:02:14,915 --> 00:02:18,062 And she drove the farmer mad with her cranky books... 35 00:02:18,151 --> 00:02:20,378 and her cranky charms and remedies. 36 00:02:21,187 --> 00:02:22,699 This stings! 37 00:02:22,785 --> 00:02:23,899 That's good. 38 00:02:25,222 --> 00:02:28,052 - That's good? - I'm making you a nice tonic and all. 39 00:02:28,139 --> 00:02:31,411 To be drunk night and morning. I want a child. 40 00:02:32,454 --> 00:02:36,158 I wouldn't care if it were a strange thing made of marzipan or porridge... 41 00:02:36,249 --> 00:02:38,362 if it were ugly as a hedgehog. 42 00:02:38,926 --> 00:02:42,198 I want a baby to wrap in a bundle... 43 00:02:42,281 --> 00:02:46,588 and sing to and snoodle with and hug to bits. 44 00:02:49,952 --> 00:02:52,826 Now, to say you wouldn't care when you want something... 45 00:02:52,908 --> 00:02:54,897 is a dangerous thing. 46 00:02:54,986 --> 00:02:59,054 That woman wanted a baby so bad she couldn't care what she got. 47 00:02:59,940 --> 00:03:03,325 If she got a hedgehog, she'd bring its snout to her breast. 48 00:03:04,854 --> 00:03:07,160 Ears twitch that shouldn't be listening. 49 00:03:07,251 --> 00:03:11,159 And no sooner said than done, she got her wish, the farmer's wife. 50 00:03:11,246 --> 00:03:14,518 She's all swollen stomach, and thinks it's the baths he took... 51 00:03:14,602 --> 00:03:16,635 or the sleeping upside down. 52 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:17,912 But in fact, of course... 53 00:03:17,997 --> 00:03:20,554 it's the saying you wouldn't care what you got... 54 00:03:20,634 --> 00:03:21,952 what gets you jiggered. 55 00:03:22,032 --> 00:03:24,782 As everyone knows what heard a proper story. 56 00:03:25,508 --> 00:03:28,576 She has her boy, and straightaway there he is... 57 00:03:28,664 --> 00:03:31,175 little ball, as ugly as sin... 58 00:03:31,261 --> 00:03:35,169 with a pointed nose and sprouting hair everywhere. 59 00:03:36,135 --> 00:03:38,930 Hedgehogs do not have hair... 60 00:03:39,051 --> 00:03:40,608 they have quills. 61 00:03:46,203 --> 00:03:50,634 But this hedgehog baby had quills as soft as feathers. 62 00:03:50,717 --> 00:03:52,512 And his mother held him to her breast... 63 00:03:52,595 --> 00:03:54,662 and wrapped him in a bundle and snoodled him... 64 00:03:54,752 --> 00:03:56,547 and hugged him to bits. 65 00:03:57,149 --> 00:03:59,341 And she gave him the name Hans. 66 00:03:59,706 --> 00:04:02,342 "Hans my hedgehog," she called him. 67 00:04:03,461 --> 00:04:06,893 Yes, the mother loved her baby all right. 68 00:04:07,257 --> 00:04:09,324 But not everybody did. 69 00:04:09,973 --> 00:04:12,609 - It's a hedgehog. - What is this? 70 00:04:13,649 --> 00:04:15,524 We're a laughingstock. 71 00:04:24,635 --> 00:04:26,941 - We're going home. - What about our chores? 72 00:04:27,032 --> 00:04:29,589 That's the end of parading ourselves in public. 73 00:04:30,228 --> 00:04:31,978 Don't cry, my sweet. 74 00:04:32,306 --> 00:04:34,453 He don't even cry like a proper baby. 75 00:04:35,981 --> 00:04:37,571 Can't you shut that squealing? 76 00:04:41,175 --> 00:04:45,879 And the farmer grew to hate his son, Hans, the hedgehog boy. 77 00:04:47,128 --> 00:04:50,196 Out in the field, he chopped and scythed and bundled and milked. 78 00:04:50,284 --> 00:04:52,999 But all the while, the shame of what had befallen him... 79 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:54,989 turned a knot in his heart. 80 00:04:55,997 --> 00:04:58,951 One moment the rage welling up in him, the next, tears. 81 00:04:59,033 --> 00:05:01,862 Huge tears splashing his boots. 82 00:05:04,226 --> 00:05:08,897 And time passed by. Day following day, week chasing week. 83 00:05:09,180 --> 00:05:11,328 And the hedgehog boy grew up. 84 00:05:11,418 --> 00:05:13,929 - Beastie! - Critterchops! 85 00:05:14,014 --> 00:05:15,526 - Prickleback! - Hoghead! 86 00:05:15,852 --> 00:05:18,568 Grovelhog! 87 00:05:18,649 --> 00:05:22,001 And Hans my hedgehog learnt he was strange... 88 00:05:22,084 --> 00:05:25,356 and he learnt he was ugly, and he learnt to be sad... 89 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,476 and he learnt the name that was given him. 90 00:05:31,033 --> 00:05:32,101 Grovelhog! 91 00:05:42,340 --> 00:05:44,373 That's enough! Out! 92 00:05:48,092 --> 00:05:49,490 Out! 93 00:05:49,930 --> 00:05:50,998 Husband! 94 00:05:51,089 --> 00:05:54,395 From now on, you'll eat out there with the other beasts! 95 00:06:02,994 --> 00:06:04,062 Hans! 96 00:06:11,783 --> 00:06:13,101 Come home! 97 00:06:13,621 --> 00:06:16,495 Hans heard them, but he wouldn't answer. 98 00:06:16,577 --> 00:06:19,532 He lay there all night, his rooster for company... 99 00:06:19,614 --> 00:06:23,045 and thought and thought, until he thought a hole in the ground. 100 00:06:23,768 --> 00:06:27,279 And his mother couldn't sleep and his father wandered the dark hours... 101 00:06:27,364 --> 00:06:29,511 a great needle in his heart. 102 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,305 In the morning, weary, the farmer returned. 103 00:06:34,395 --> 00:06:37,464 By the step, asleep, was his son, the grovelhog. 104 00:06:38,151 --> 00:06:42,616 I've trudged all night for you. You'll not eat for a week of my food. 105 00:06:43,025 --> 00:06:45,819 Father, I want you to do some things for me. 106 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:47,734 You what? 107 00:06:47,819 --> 00:06:51,251 I want you to go to the village and have me a saddle made for my rooster... 108 00:06:51,334 --> 00:06:52,652 so I can ride him. 109 00:06:52,733 --> 00:06:55,926 And I want some of your sheep and some hens and some pigs. 110 00:06:56,328 --> 00:06:58,317 Do you now? Fancy fine. 111 00:06:58,765 --> 00:07:01,878 I know which ones I'd like. And they would be happy to come with me. 112 00:07:01,961 --> 00:07:04,518 Come with you? Come with you where? 113 00:07:05,237 --> 00:07:07,191 Where I go, which is away. 114 00:07:07,475 --> 00:07:09,827 Which is to somewhere where I can't hurt anyone... 115 00:07:09,912 --> 00:07:11,582 and no one can hurt me. 116 00:07:11,669 --> 00:07:14,896 And when are you planning this gad to away and somewhere? 117 00:07:15,225 --> 00:07:17,020 When I have the saddle. 118 00:07:17,462 --> 00:07:19,178 Thou can't go nowhere. 119 00:07:20,778 --> 00:07:23,811 What would your mother say? Her who dotes on you? 120 00:07:25,373 --> 00:07:29,883 Father, all night I lay outdoor to understand why you don't love me. 121 00:07:29,967 --> 00:07:33,160 And I've thought until I've thought a hole in the grass. 122 00:07:33,762 --> 00:07:37,467 And now it's all right. When I have the saddle, I'll go. 123 00:07:39,235 --> 00:07:41,542 And the farmer felt ashamed. 124 00:07:41,752 --> 00:07:43,741 And he brought home a saddle for the rooster... 125 00:07:43,830 --> 00:07:46,102 and he herded up the animals his son had asked for... 126 00:07:46,187 --> 00:07:48,062 and he told his wife, "Pack a packed lunch..." 127 00:07:48,144 --> 00:07:51,496 and all the while the grovelhog sat on the stoop and waited. 128 00:07:52,140 --> 00:07:55,367 When all was done, he went to his mother and she kissed him... 129 00:07:55,455 --> 00:07:57,569 and then to his dad and hugged him. 130 00:07:57,733 --> 00:08:01,846 And the farmer knew for the first time how soft he was. 131 00:08:02,407 --> 00:08:05,634 They watched him until he was a faint smudge in the distance. 132 00:08:05,723 --> 00:08:09,347 And his mother felt a crack in her heart like a tiny pencil line. 133 00:08:10,077 --> 00:08:13,032 And each day after, the pencil line got thicker and thicker. 134 00:08:13,114 --> 00:08:15,261 And one day, not long after... 135 00:08:15,351 --> 00:08:17,180 her heart split in half... 136 00:08:18,187 --> 00:08:19,585 and she died. 137 00:08:22,183 --> 00:08:25,966 Twenty years later, a king got lost in a great forest. 138 00:08:26,497 --> 00:08:28,689 And after he got lost, he got more lost... 139 00:08:28,774 --> 00:08:31,365 until he was so lost, he began to tug his ear... 140 00:08:31,451 --> 00:08:33,519 which is a sure sign of big trouble... 141 00:08:34,008 --> 00:08:35,325 when he heard a sound... 142 00:08:35,406 --> 00:08:38,474 which was a bitter sound and a sweet sound all at once. 143 00:08:38,562 --> 00:08:41,278 Which began like hello and ended like goodbye. 144 00:08:41,758 --> 00:08:43,872 And tugging his ear like billy-o... 145 00:08:43,956 --> 00:08:47,069 he followed the sound until he came to a clearing. 146 00:08:47,152 --> 00:08:49,458 And the palace the king saw before him... 147 00:08:49,908 --> 00:08:54,021 was the most extraordinary palace in your whole born. 148 00:09:07,966 --> 00:09:10,602 I am very lost... 149 00:09:11,162 --> 00:09:12,912 and I'm very hungry. 150 00:09:13,479 --> 00:09:16,309 And somewhere, back there... 151 00:09:16,915 --> 00:09:19,585 a long time ago, I was a king. 152 00:09:19,951 --> 00:09:22,860 But now, so lost and so hungry... 153 00:09:22,948 --> 00:09:25,254 you would knock at a beast's house? 154 00:09:25,345 --> 00:09:26,492 Well... 155 00:09:27,622 --> 00:09:31,166 You are welcome in my house, sir, and at my table. 156 00:09:33,455 --> 00:09:36,045 And the king sat at the grovelhog's table... 157 00:09:36,131 --> 00:09:38,881 and ate of the greenest greens and the sweetest sweets... 158 00:09:38,968 --> 00:09:40,684 and the juiciest juices. 159 00:09:41,525 --> 00:09:43,115 How very, very kind. 160 00:09:43,203 --> 00:09:45,872 And after, his host took up the bagpipes... 161 00:09:45,959 --> 00:09:48,868 and played old songs, which were bitter and sweet all at once... 162 00:09:48,956 --> 00:09:51,671 and began like hello and ended like goodbye. 163 00:09:52,112 --> 00:09:56,066 And before he could think, "I'm full now and found..." 164 00:09:56,986 --> 00:09:58,702 the king was asleep. 165 00:10:00,541 --> 00:10:03,006 This king woke up the next morning... 166 00:10:03,098 --> 00:10:05,609 after a night of the kind of dreams you only dream about. 167 00:10:05,695 --> 00:10:08,489 And he opened his eyes and almost yanked off his ear... 168 00:10:08,571 --> 00:10:10,241 because he found himself under a tree... 169 00:10:10,329 --> 00:10:12,443 which certainly wasn't where he'd fallen asleep... 170 00:10:12,527 --> 00:10:13,844 and more confusing... 171 00:10:13,925 --> 00:10:17,549 it was a tree from which he could see the edge of his kingdom. 172 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,117 And he began to dance... 173 00:10:19,198 --> 00:10:21,755 as only kings once lost and then found can dance. 174 00:10:21,835 --> 00:10:23,789 A jig, a jiggle-joggle and a leap... 175 00:10:24,072 --> 00:10:28,424 I've heard this story and you're telling it all wrong. 176 00:10:28,507 --> 00:10:29,575 What happens is... 177 00:10:29,665 --> 00:10:32,096 the king wants to give the grovelhog a reward... 178 00:10:32,182 --> 00:10:34,171 for all his help, and so he says: 179 00:10:34,499 --> 00:10:36,328 "Name anything." 180 00:10:36,976 --> 00:10:38,726 And the hogthing says: 181 00:10:39,054 --> 00:10:42,883 "Give me the first thing to greet you when you arrive in your kingdom." 182 00:10:44,048 --> 00:10:45,240 And the king agrees... 183 00:10:45,326 --> 00:10:47,473 because he knows the first thing to greet him... 184 00:10:47,563 --> 00:10:50,949 will be his faithful, flop-eared Wagger... 185 00:10:51,039 --> 00:10:52,470 the royal dog. 186 00:10:52,917 --> 00:10:55,905 So the king says yes. And the hogthing says: 187 00:10:56,073 --> 00:10:59,300 "I'll collect my reward in a year and a day." 188 00:10:59,389 --> 00:11:02,536 And off he goes on his ridiculous rooster. 189 00:11:04,063 --> 00:11:05,097 But... 190 00:11:05,182 --> 00:11:07,409 things don't go as he planned, do they? 191 00:11:07,499 --> 00:11:10,931 And it's not Wagger who gets there first. 192 00:11:18,006 --> 00:11:19,801 And the king lets go of the princess... 193 00:11:19,884 --> 00:11:23,077 of sweetness and cherry pie and his face clouds over. 194 00:11:23,639 --> 00:11:27,468 But then he shrugs and turns back to his daughter and dog... 195 00:11:27,554 --> 00:11:30,906 and walks away for a year and a day. 196 00:11:36,982 --> 00:11:40,254 Here we are, dearios, in the king's great hall. 197 00:11:40,738 --> 00:11:43,329 And lo and behold, a handsome storyteller... 198 00:11:43,415 --> 00:11:46,846 has been summoned to court to entertain the royal family. 199 00:11:49,607 --> 00:11:50,641 King. 200 00:11:51,245 --> 00:11:54,677 Now, of course, the king here has been counting the days off his calendar... 201 00:11:54,761 --> 00:11:56,397 and it is a year ago today, you see... 202 00:11:56,478 --> 00:11:59,194 since he made his rash promise to the grovelhog. 203 00:12:00,274 --> 00:12:02,148 And tomorrow, you'll remember, is the day... 204 00:12:02,231 --> 00:12:05,663 when the grovelhog is due to arrive to collect his reward. 205 00:12:08,264 --> 00:12:10,139 Princess. 206 00:12:13,897 --> 00:12:15,692 I'm very good at this. 207 00:12:20,329 --> 00:12:23,795 Get rid of him! Fool! Idiot! Throw him in the dungeon! 208 00:12:24,444 --> 00:12:29,228 Feed him inch by inch to my royal sharks! And what they won't eat, give to his dog! 209 00:12:29,997 --> 00:12:32,462 No, help! Put me down! 210 00:12:35,351 --> 00:12:37,907 Your Majesty, a huge army appears at the gates! 211 00:12:38,267 --> 00:12:40,619 - Does it? - Not men, but animals, sire. 212 00:12:41,423 --> 00:12:42,411 Told you. 213 00:12:42,502 --> 00:12:45,729 I heard you! Let them in. 214 00:12:47,975 --> 00:12:51,486 Get off! Give a fellow some space! I want to hear this. 215 00:12:54,047 --> 00:12:56,683 - Do you remember me? - I do. 216 00:12:56,764 --> 00:12:59,559 A year and a day have passed since last we met. 217 00:12:59,641 --> 00:13:01,868 Will you keep your promise to me? 218 00:13:02,917 --> 00:13:04,064 I will! 219 00:13:04,674 --> 00:13:05,867 He will? 220 00:13:12,545 --> 00:13:14,339 Do you know of me, lady? 221 00:13:14,422 --> 00:13:15,695 I do, sir. 222 00:13:16,739 --> 00:13:19,170 You saved my father and he owes you his life. 223 00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:23,361 Do you know of his promise to me? 224 00:13:24,290 --> 00:13:27,995 He promised you the first thing to greet him on his return. 225 00:13:28,565 --> 00:13:30,155 And what was that? 226 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:33,867 Me, sir. 227 00:13:38,193 --> 00:13:39,510 I am yours. 228 00:13:40,390 --> 00:13:43,981 Then I want you to be my wife and come live with me in the forest. 229 00:13:44,385 --> 00:13:47,817 I want you to be my princess of sweetness and cherry pie. 230 00:13:47,901 --> 00:13:50,492 I want to catch you up and sing to you. 231 00:13:52,535 --> 00:13:54,330 I want you to love me. 232 00:13:55,851 --> 00:13:57,044 Yes, sir. 233 00:13:57,409 --> 00:13:59,318 Do you find me very ugly? 234 00:14:00,206 --> 00:14:01,354 No, sir. 235 00:14:01,964 --> 00:14:04,521 Not so ugly as going back on a promise. 236 00:14:08,316 --> 00:14:09,588 Come on, shift yourselves! 237 00:14:09,674 --> 00:14:12,060 There's a royal wedding and you're all to be pardoned... 238 00:14:12,151 --> 00:14:14,616 though I don't know why, I'm sure. Come on! 239 00:14:14,988 --> 00:14:17,976 And I don't know about wedding. Up there, it's more like a funeral. 240 00:14:18,064 --> 00:14:20,052 Good. A wedding. 241 00:14:20,141 --> 00:14:23,050 I might even be asked to tell a story or two. Who knows? 242 00:14:23,138 --> 00:14:26,092 It's on days like these, that artists come into their own. 243 00:14:51,383 --> 00:14:52,780 We are gathered here today... 244 00:14:57,375 --> 00:15:01,159 The most unhappy wedding party you ever saw. 245 00:15:02,689 --> 00:15:07,313 And that night, in her bedchamber, it was a terrified princess who lay waiting... 246 00:15:07,403 --> 00:15:09,914 for her new husband to join her. 247 00:15:55,624 --> 00:15:59,055 And lying there half sweetness, half cherry pie... 248 00:15:59,139 --> 00:16:02,094 the princess could hardly credit what she'd seen. 249 00:16:03,055 --> 00:16:05,282 But creeping to the window, she looked down... 250 00:16:05,372 --> 00:16:08,166 and there, sure enough, a man... 251 00:16:08,608 --> 00:16:11,482 moving among the animals in the quiet rain. 252 00:16:11,604 --> 00:16:15,638 And she found herself going to the abandoned coat of hair and quills... 253 00:16:16,238 --> 00:16:18,033 and touching it... 254 00:16:18,116 --> 00:16:21,661 soft and warm and remarkable. 255 00:16:24,109 --> 00:16:27,302 And the first rays of morning woke her from dreams... 256 00:16:27,385 --> 00:16:29,452 of waterfalls and ice cream. 257 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:33,007 And there she was in her bed. 258 00:16:33,457 --> 00:16:37,411 And by the embers, the grovelhog, back again, beast again. 259 00:16:38,571 --> 00:16:41,639 And so, had she dreamed all this peeling off of skin? 260 00:16:42,206 --> 00:16:44,001 Surely she must have. 261 00:16:44,683 --> 00:16:46,717 But that night, the same scene... 262 00:16:46,801 --> 00:16:50,073 her husband standing over her as she pretended to sleep. 263 00:16:50,476 --> 00:16:53,908 The tender touch on her arm, not prickly, but so smooth... 264 00:16:53,992 --> 00:16:56,298 she felt an ache when he left her. 265 00:16:57,268 --> 00:17:00,972 And she found herself going to the skin and lying against it. 266 00:17:01,063 --> 00:17:03,733 And how comfortable she found it. 267 00:17:04,179 --> 00:17:08,292 And she felt drowsy lying there by the fire, so peaceful. 268 00:17:08,654 --> 00:17:11,801 She felt herself drifting off and knew she mustn't... 269 00:17:12,049 --> 00:17:14,038 but really couldn't help herself. 270 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,793 Sir, I woke and you had gone. 271 00:17:22,117 --> 00:17:24,708 And left behind you your coat of quills. 272 00:17:27,111 --> 00:17:29,338 Which would you have for husband? 273 00:17:29,788 --> 00:17:32,174 The man or the creature? 274 00:17:33,982 --> 00:17:35,732 I have a husband, sir... 275 00:17:36,020 --> 00:17:39,167 and he is what he is. No more and no less. 276 00:17:40,854 --> 00:17:43,604 Then forgive him, madam, if he returns to his skin. 277 00:17:44,450 --> 00:17:46,677 For I'm enchanted and cannot leave it. 278 00:17:47,486 --> 00:17:50,360 But if you say nothing of this for a third night... 279 00:17:51,601 --> 00:17:54,953 then loyal love will break the spell forever. 280 00:17:55,196 --> 00:17:56,469 I promise. 281 00:17:58,912 --> 00:18:02,264 But we all know about promises, don't we? 282 00:18:02,507 --> 00:18:03,984 And secrets. 283 00:18:04,065 --> 00:18:06,656 What use are they when no one knows about them? 284 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:10,816 When they twist and turn and tickle in our stomachs? 285 00:18:10,897 --> 00:18:14,965 When they're tickly little fish wriggling into our conversations? 286 00:18:16,290 --> 00:18:18,244 Now, you see, the princess had a mother... 287 00:18:18,328 --> 00:18:20,839 and mothers have this way of catching secret-fish... 288 00:18:20,925 --> 00:18:22,481 and promise-fish. 289 00:18:22,962 --> 00:18:26,791 They eye us with wise eyes and all our rivers are glass to them. 290 00:18:27,317 --> 00:18:30,066 Just so with the queen, who that morning at breakfast... 291 00:18:30,153 --> 00:18:32,267 sees a daughter skip to the table... 292 00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:34,944 eat, when for days no appetite. 293 00:18:35,027 --> 00:18:36,015 - Hungry? - Yes. 294 00:18:36,106 --> 00:18:37,822 Laugh, when for days no laughter. 295 00:18:38,183 --> 00:18:40,137 - Sleep well? - Yes, thank you. 296 00:18:40,860 --> 00:18:43,576 Not troubled by the creature? 297 00:18:43,936 --> 00:18:47,208 No, Mother. And please don't speak of him as a creature. 298 00:18:48,770 --> 00:18:50,406 Listen, Daughter... 299 00:18:50,488 --> 00:18:53,079 last night your father and I went to a wise woman... 300 00:18:53,165 --> 00:18:54,915 and told of your tragedy. 301 00:18:55,482 --> 00:18:57,152 And she knows of these... 302 00:18:57,559 --> 00:19:00,514 creatures, these grovelhogs... 303 00:19:00,596 --> 00:19:02,232 and knows the remedy. 304 00:19:02,713 --> 00:19:04,781 He is enchanted, you see. 305 00:19:05,749 --> 00:19:07,022 I know. 306 00:19:08,146 --> 00:19:12,771 I mean, I knew that he must be. Something like that. 307 00:19:13,779 --> 00:19:16,529 Yes, I see. He's enchanted. 308 00:19:17,575 --> 00:19:19,131 He's told you, hasn't he? 309 00:19:19,213 --> 00:19:22,246 No, really, he hasn't. I just knew he must be. 310 00:19:24,766 --> 00:19:27,913 And does he take off his skin? 311 00:19:28,361 --> 00:19:30,270 No. He doesn't. 312 00:19:32,077 --> 00:19:35,826 The only way to break the spell is to throw the skin into the fire. 313 00:19:35,912 --> 00:19:38,343 Cast the skin into the flames and he will be free of it. 314 00:19:38,429 --> 00:19:43,099 - That's not the way. - So, he has told you. 315 00:20:04,517 --> 00:20:06,426 That night, the third... 316 00:20:06,514 --> 00:20:08,787 when everything happens as before... 317 00:20:09,111 --> 00:20:12,224 the princess is haunted by her mother's advice. 318 00:20:12,787 --> 00:20:15,014 And oh dear, oh dear... 319 00:20:33,761 --> 00:20:36,318 Husband, please! Please don't go... 320 00:20:41,631 --> 00:20:42,858 Daughter! 321 00:20:45,586 --> 00:20:47,142 And there she sat... 322 00:20:47,224 --> 00:20:49,338 the princess of sweetness and cherry pie... 323 00:20:49,422 --> 00:20:50,694 weeping into the fire. 324 00:20:50,780 --> 00:20:53,052 And she would let no one see her, not even me... 325 00:20:53,137 --> 00:20:54,773 and I was her favourite. 326 00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:58,799 No, she thought and thought, until she thought a hole in the hearth. 327 00:20:58,890 --> 00:21:01,082 Until she knew what she must do. 328 00:21:02,006 --> 00:21:05,278 She went to the blacksmith and got from him a pair of iron shoes. 329 00:21:05,362 --> 00:21:08,555 And that night, when all slept, she slipped out of the palace... 330 00:21:08,638 --> 00:21:12,070 and set off to wander the world in search of her husband. 331 00:21:14,551 --> 00:21:18,539 She walked and walked until she wore out the first pair of shoes. 332 00:21:18,626 --> 00:21:21,500 And still no one had set eyes on the grovelhog. 333 00:21:21,822 --> 00:21:24,287 And she got a second pair of shoes and began again... 334 00:21:24,379 --> 00:21:26,492 never stopping, always hoping. 335 00:21:27,535 --> 00:21:29,887 And the second pair of shoes wore out. 336 00:21:29,972 --> 00:21:33,005 And still she walked, always looking, always hoping... 337 00:21:33,088 --> 00:21:35,235 to hear a music both bitter and sweet... 338 00:21:35,325 --> 00:21:38,711 beginning in hello and ending in goodbye, but nothing. 339 00:21:41,038 --> 00:21:43,629 Till one day, weary and wretched... 340 00:21:43,715 --> 00:21:46,384 she came to a stream and lay down by it. 341 00:21:46,551 --> 00:21:48,619 And saw in the water's mirror... 342 00:21:48,748 --> 00:21:50,976 her hair was now quite white. 343 00:21:51,545 --> 00:21:54,613 And she sorrowed for her red hair and her husband. 344 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:57,016 Both lost forever. 345 00:22:11,281 --> 00:22:13,587 To the health of that most beautiful woman... 346 00:22:13,678 --> 00:22:16,507 who could not keep her promise for one more day. 347 00:22:18,831 --> 00:22:19,819 Husband? 348 00:22:23,106 --> 00:22:24,776 How did you find me? 349 00:22:25,543 --> 00:22:27,770 I have walked the world to find you... 350 00:22:27,980 --> 00:22:30,968 and have worn the soles of three pairs of iron shoes. 351 00:22:31,416 --> 00:22:33,245 My hair is no longer red... 352 00:22:34,452 --> 00:22:36,088 but I come to claim you. 353 00:22:36,330 --> 00:22:39,636 And catch you up and snoodle you and hug you to bits. 354 00:23:15,921 --> 00:23:18,875 And so the princess who could not keep her promise... 355 00:23:18,957 --> 00:23:21,866 won back her husband through looking without hope of finding... 356 00:23:21,954 --> 00:23:24,067 and holding on for dear life. 357 00:23:24,990 --> 00:23:29,694 And in time, her hair grew red again and there was another wedding all over. 358 00:23:30,104 --> 00:23:32,012 And we were both invited. 359 00:23:32,341 --> 00:23:34,932 And I told the best story there is to tell. 360 00:23:35,018 --> 00:23:38,051 A story which begins in hello and ends in goodbye. 361 00:23:39,492 --> 00:23:43,400 And for a gift she gave me a shoe worn to nothing. 362 00:23:43,425 --> 00:23:46,925 And here it is. 363 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,082