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Scene 1 · Intermediate
En barfodet pige i sneen
A barefoot girl in the snow
Danish
På årets sidste aften faldt sneen tæt. Det var bidende koldt, og mørket var ved at sænke sig. En lille pige gik fra gade til gade med bart hoved og bare fødder. Hun havde ganske vist haft tøfler på, da hun gik hjemmefra, men de havde tilhørt hendes mor og var alt for store.
English translation
On the last evening of the year, the snow fell thickly. It was bitterly cold, and darkness was closing in. A little girl went from street to street, bareheaded and barefoot. She had been wearing slippers when she left home, but they had belonged to her mother and were much too big.
Danish
Hun havde mistet begge tøfler, da hun skyndte sig over gaden for at komme af vejen for to vogne, der kom i fuld fart. Den ene kunne hun ikke finde igen. Den anden snuppede en dreng, som løb sin vej med den. Han sagde, at han kunne bruge den som vugge, når han selv fik børn.
English translation
She had lost both slippers when she hurried across the street to get out of the way of two carriages coming at full speed. She couldn’t find one of them again. A boy snatched the other and ran off with it. He said he could use it as a cradle when he had children of his own.
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