The maid servant then rides off on Falada, while the princess has to mount the maid's nag. ![]() She threatens to kill the princess if she doesn't swear never to say a word about this reversal of roles to any living being. She orders the princess to change clothes with her and the horses as well. The maid takes advantage of the princess's vulnerability. When she bends to the water her charm falls out of her bosom and floats away. But again the evil servant says, "I will not serve you any longer, no matter what you or your mother say." The servant leaves the poor princess to drink from the river by her dainty little hands. So she asks her maid once more to get her some water. She wails softly: "What will become of me?" The charm answers: "Alas, alas, if your mother knew, her loving heart would break in two." After a while, the princess gets thirsty again. I do not want to be your servant any longer." So the princess has to fetch herself water from the nearby stream. She asks the maid to go and fetch her some water, but the maid simply says: "If you want water, get it for yourself. The princess and her servant travel for a time, and eventually the princess grows thirsty. The queen gives the princess a special charm that will protect her as long as she wears it. ![]() Accompanying the princess are her magical horse Falada, who can speak, and a waiting maid. Summary Ī widowed queen sends her daughter to a faraway land to marry. Grimm's source for the story is the German storyteller Dorothea Viehmann (1755–1815). The tale was first published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen, vol. Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book in 1889. by an anonymous community of translators in 1865, by Lucy Crane in 1881, by LucMargaret Hunt in 1884, etc. The story was first translated into English by Edgar Taylor in 1826, then by many others, e.g. ![]() " The Goose Girl" ( German: Die Gänsemagd) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1815 (KHM 89). "The Goose Girl", Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler
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