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Scene 1 · Intermediate
Den onde troldmands spejl
The wicked magician's mirror
Danish
Der var engang en ond troldmand, som var svært tilfreds med et spejl, han havde lavet. I spejlet skrumpede alt det gode og smukke ind til næsten ingenting. Til gengæld blev alt det grimme forstørret og så ti gange værre ud end før. Selv det dejligste landskab kom til at ligne kogt spinat.
English translation
Once there was a wicked sorcerer who was very pleased with a mirror he had made. In the mirror, everything good and beautiful shrank to almost nothing. Everything ugly, on the other hand, grew larger and looked ten times worse than before. Even the loveliest landscape ended up looking like boiled spinach.
Danish
Hvis man havde en lille fregne, så den ud til at brede sig over hele næsen og munden. Tænkte man en god tanke, viste den sig som en rynke. Troldmanden klukkede af fryd over sin opfindelse, og eleverne på hans trolddomsskole spredte rygtet om den. Ifølge dem kunne man nu endelig se verden og dens indbyggere, som de virkelig var.
English translation
If you had a little freckle, it looked as though it spread across your whole nose and mouth. If you had a kind thought, it showed up as a wrinkle. The sorcerer chuckled with delight at his invention, and the students at his school of magic spread the word about it. According to them, you could finally see the world and its inhabitants as they really were.
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