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Scene 1 · Intermediate
Sneeuwwitje wordt geboren
Snow-white is born
Dutch
Midden in de winter zat een koningin bij het raam te naaien. Buiten vielen de sneeuwvlokken als veren uit de hemel. Het raam had een kozijn van zwart ebbenhout. Terwijl de koningin naar de sneeuw keek, prikte ze met haar naald in haar vinger. Drie druppels bloed vielen op de sneeuw.
English translation
In the middle of winter, a queen sat sewing by the window. Outside, snowflakes fell from the sky like feathers. The window had a frame of black ebony. As the queen looked at the snow, she pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell onto the snow.
Dutch
Het rood stak prachtig af tegen het wit. ‘Had ik maar een kind met een huid zo wit als sneeuw, wangen zo rood als bloed en haar zo zwart als dit raamkozijn’, dacht ze.
English translation
The red stood out beautifully against the white. “If only I had a child with skin as white as snow, cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as this window frame,” she thought.
Dutch
Kort daarna kreeg ze een dochtertje dat er precies zo uitzag. Daarom kreeg het de naam Sneeuwwitje. Maar bij de geboorte van het kind stierf de koningin.
English translation
Shortly afterward, she had a little daughter who looked exactly like that. So the child was given the name Snow White. But the queen died when the child was born.
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