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Scene 1 · Intermediate
Snehvide bliver født
Snow-white is born
Danish
Midt om vinteren, mens snefnuggene dalede som fjer, sad en dronning og syede ved et vindue med en karm af sort ibenholt. Hun så ud på sneen, mens hun syede, og kom til at stikke sig i fingeren. Tre dråber blod faldt ned på sneen.
English translation
In the middle of winter, while snowflakes drifted down like feathers, a queen sat sewing by a window with a black ebony frame. As she sewed, she looked out at the snow and accidentally pricked her finger. Three drops of blood fell onto the snow.
Danish
Det røde blod tog sig så smukt ud mod det hvide, at hun tænkte: »Bare jeg fik et barn med hud så hvid som sne, kinder så røde som blod og hår så sort som træet i vindueskarmen.«
English translation
The red blood looked so beautiful against the white that she thought, “If only I had a child with skin as white as snow, cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as the wood of the window frame.”
Danish
Kort efter fik dronningen en lille datter. Pigen havde hud så hvid som sne, kinder så røde som blod og hår så sort som ibenholt, og derfor fik hun navnet Snehvide. Dronningen døde, da barnet var født.
English translation
Soon afterward, the queen had a little daughter. The girl had skin as white as snow, cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony, so she was named Snow White. The queen died after the child was born.
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