Norwegian · Beginner
Adapted from Hansel and Gretel
Two children are lost in the forest and must outwit a witch who lives in a house made of sweets.
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Scene 1 · Beginner
En fattig vedhogger bodde ved en stor skog med kona si og de to barna sine, Hans og Grete. Kona var barnas stemor. Da det ble lite mat i landet, hadde familien til slutt nesten ikke brød igjen.
A poor woodcutter lived by a large forest with his wife and his two children, Hansel and Gretel. His wife was the children’s stepmother. When food grew scarce in the country, the family eventually had almost no bread left.
En natt sa stemoren til mannen sin: «I morgen tar vi barna med langt inn i skogen. Vi tenner et bål og gir dem litt brød. Så går vi fra dem. Derfra finner de ikke veien hjem.»
One night the stepmother said to her husband, “Tomorrow we’ll take the children deep into the forest. We’ll light a fire and give them some bread. Then we’ll leave them behind. They won’t find their way home from there.”
«Men de ville dyrene kan ta dem!» sa faren. Han ville ikke forlate barna, men stemoren sa at ellers ville alle fire dø av sult. Til slutt gikk han med på planen, selv om han syntes synd på barna.
“But wild animals could get them!” said their father. He didn’t want to leave the children, but their stepmother said all four of them would starve otherwise. In the end he agreed to the plan, even though he felt sorry for the children.
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