tailieunhanh - THE JUNIPER-TREE -GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE

THE JUNIPER-TREE -GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE Truyện cổ Grim là 1 trong những bộ truyện cổ tích nổi tiếng nhất thế giới. Bộ truyện này vốn đã được dịch ra nhiều thứ tiếng . Sau đây là bản tiếng Anh của bộ truyện này | THE JUNIPER-TREE Long long ago some two thousand years or so there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife. They loved each other dearly but sorrowed much that they had no children. So greatly did they desire to have one that the wife prayed for it day and night but still they remained childless. In front of the house there was a court in which grew a juniper-tree. One winter s day the wife stood under the tree to peel some apples and as she was peeling them she cut her finger and the blood fell on the snow. Ah sighed the woman heavily if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow and as she spoke the words her heart grew light within her and it seemed to her that her wish was granted and she returned to the house feeling glad and comforted. A month passed and the snow had all disappeared then another month went by and all the earth was green. So the months followed one another and first the trees budded in the woods and soon the green branches grew thickly intertwined and then the blossoms began to fall. Once again the wife stood under the juniper-tree and it was so full of sweet scent that her heart leaped for joy and she was so overcome with her happiness that she fell on her knees. Presently the fruit became round and firm and she was glad and at peace but when they were fully ripe she picked the berries and ate eagerly of them and then she grew sad and ill. A little while later she called her husband and said to him weeping. If I die bury me under the juniper-tree. Then she felt comforted and happy again and before another month had passed she had a little child and when she saw that it was as white as snow and as red as blood her joy was so great that she died. Her husband buried her under the juniper-tree and wept bitterly for her. By degrees however his sorrow grew less and although at times he still grieved over his loss he was able to go about as usual and later on he married again. He now had a little daughter born to him the child of