Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him as her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought: he'll love me more than old Dame Godmother, and said yes, and put her hand in his. But the king's son began speaking very kindly to her, and told her that his heart had been so deeply moved by her singing that it gave him no peace, and he had to see her for himself. "If that's the ladder to climb, I'll try my luck too." And next day, as it was beginning to grow dark, he went up to the tower and called:Īt once her hair fell down, and the king's son climbed up.Īt first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man came in to her, for she had never set eyes on one before. Then Rapunzel let down her tresses, and the sorceress climbed up to her. Once, when he was standing behind a tree and listening, he saw a sorceress approach and heard how she called up: He rode home, but the singing touched his heart so deeply that he went out into the forest every day and listened to it. The king's son wanted to climb up to her and looked for a door in the tower, but there was none to be found. It was Rapunzel, who passed the time in her loneliness by letting her sweet voice ring out. Then he heard singing that was so lovely that he stopped and listened. When she heard the sorceress's voice, she would undo her braids, wrap them round the window-catch above, and then her hair would fall 20 ells far below and the sorceress would climb up it.Īfter a few years it happened that the king's son was riding through the forest and came past the tower. Rapunzel had beautiful long hair, as fine as spun gold. When the sorceress wanted to get in, she would stand below and call: When she was 12 years old the sorceress locked her in a tower in a forest that had neither stair nor door, only one little window right at the top. Rapunzel was the most beautiful child under the sun. All shall go well with her, and I will care for her like a mother." In his fear the man agreed to everything, and when his wife's time came the sorceress appeared straight away, named the child "Rapunzel", and took her away with her. But I shall make one condition: you must give me the child your wife will bring into the world. My wife saw your rapunzels from the window, and she has such a great craving for them that she would die if she did not eat some." Then the sorceress's anger abated, and she said to him: "If it is as you say, I will permit you to take as many rapunzels as you wish. I only decided to steal because I had to. "How do you dare," she said with an angry look, "to climb into my garden and steal my rapunzels like a thief? It will cost you dear." "Oh please," he answered, "let mercy rule, not justice. So at evening twilight he climbed over again, but when he had clambered down the wall he was mightily frightened, for be saw the sorceress standing before him. If she was to be at peace, her husband had to climb into the garden once again. But she enjoyed them so much, so very, very much, that next day her craving was three times as great.
Straight away she made herself a salad of them and ate them greedily. So in the evening twilight he climbed over the wall into the sorceress's garden, hastily dug up a handful of rapunzels, and took them to his wife. Her husband was alarmed, and asked: "What's the matter, dear wife?" "Oh," she answered, "if I don't get any of the rapunzels to eat from the garden behind our house, I shall die." Her husband, who loved her, thought: sooner than let your wife die, you'll get some of the rapunzels for her, cost what it may. Each day her craving grew, and as she knew that she couldn't have any of them, she grew thin and looked pale and wretched. One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down at the garden when she noticed a bed planted with the most beautiful rampions, or rapunzels and they looked so fresh and green that she began to hanker after them, and felt a great craving to eat some of the rapunzels. But it was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared enter it because it belonged to a sorceress who had great power and was feared by all the world.
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In the parlour at the back of their house they had a little window, and from it they were able to look out on to a splendid garden full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. At last the wife had hopes that the good Lord would fulfil her wish. There once lived a husband and a wife who had long wished for a child, but in vain.
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