Danish · Beginner
Adapted from The Red Shoes
A girl’s beautiful red shoes lead her into a troubling chain of events.
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Scene 1 · Beginner
Karen var en fattig lille pige. Om sommeren gik hun uden sko. Om vinteren gik hun i store træsko, der gjorde hendes fødder røde.
Karen was a poor little girl. In summer she went barefoot. In winter she wore large wooden clogs that made her feet red.
En gammel kone i landsbyen syede et par sko til Karen af rødt stof. Skoene var ikke særlig fine, men konen havde lavet dem for at hjælpe hende. Karen havde dem på for første gang til sin mors begravelse. Røde sko passede ikke til en begravelse, men hun havde ingen andre.
An old woman in the village sewed Karen a pair of shoes out of red cloth. The shoes weren’t very fancy, but the woman had made them to help her. Karen wore them for the first time to her mother’s funeral. Red shoes weren’t appropriate for a funeral, but she had no others.
Så hun tog dem på og gik bag sin mors kiste.
So she put them on and walked behind her mother’s coffin.
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