1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:09,719 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. Welcome to Cool Zone Media book Club. 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: That's always been our introduction, right Hi, Welcome Nicholsone Media 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: book Club. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this is 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: the book club where you don't have to do the 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: reading because I do it for you. And it's been 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: too long since I read you some folklore. It has 7 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: been too long, and I spend way too much of 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: my time researching history, so I spend a lot of 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: my time thinking about conceptions of self and myth and 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: things of people in the past. And when I have 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: those feelings, I turn to folklore. So this week I'm 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: going to read you a story called Soria Moria Castle, 13 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: and it's from the Norse. It is a popular folk 14 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: tale there, or at least the Internet tells me it's 15 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: popular there. I have not spent enough time in Norway 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: to know whether the average Norwegian person is like, ah, yes, 17 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: totally sorry, a Moria castle, that's our shit. But the 18 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: reason I picked this story it's not because it's popular 19 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: in Norway. It's because I was looking at a different 20 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: story that I'll probably read to you some other time. 21 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: It's a very good story. When I ran across this story, 22 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: translated by the same person, and specifically I ran across 23 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: it because Maria is the name of the minds of 24 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: Moria in Lord of the Rings, and Tolkien admitted that 25 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: it is from this story. There's nothing about it, like, 26 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: there's no actual connection besides the name. But that's enough 27 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: for me. And this version of the story is from 28 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: a book from one hundred plus years ago called Popular 29 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: Tales from the Norse, a translation by George Webb Descent. Okay, 30 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: the other reason that I'm reading it to you is 31 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: that the first paragraph is just so I'm so into it. 32 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: But nerd of virgens is totally new, says the person 33 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: who's trying to destroy all health services in this country. 34 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: But actually the nerd of virgens is as old as time. Okay, 35 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: now I'm going to read you the story Sooria Maria Castle. 36 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: Once on a time, there was a poor couple who 37 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: had a son whose name was Halvor. Ever since he 38 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: was a little boy, he would turn his hand to nothing, 39 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,399 Speaker 1: but just sat there and groped about in the ashes. 40 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: His father and mother often put him out to learn 41 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: this trade or that, but Halvor could stay nowhere, for 42 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: when he had been there a day or two, he 43 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: ran away from his master and never stopped till he 44 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: was sitting again in the ingle, poking about in the cinders. Well. 45 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: One day a skipper came and asked Halvor if he 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: hadn't a mind to be with him and go to 47 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: sea and see strange lands. Yes, Halvor would like that 48 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: very much, so he wasn't long in getting himself ready. 49 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: How long they sailed, I'm sure I can't tell, But 50 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: the end of it was they fell into a great storm, 51 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: and when it was blown over and it got still again, 52 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: they couldn't tell where they were, for they had been 53 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: driven away to a strange coast which none of them 54 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: knew anything about. Well, as there was just no wind 55 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: at all. They stayed lying wind bound there, and Halvor 56 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: asked the skipper's leave to go on shore and look 57 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: about him. He would sooner go, he said, than lie 58 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: there and sleep. Do you think now you're fit to 59 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: show yourself before folk, said the skipper, Why you've no 60 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: clothes than those rags you stand in? But Halvar stuck 61 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: to his own, and so at last he got leave. 62 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: But he was to be sure and come back as 63 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: soon as it ever began to blow. So off he 64 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: went and found a lovely land. Wherever he came there 65 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: were fine, large flat cornfields and rich meads, but he 66 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: couldn't catch a glimpse of a living soul. Well, it 67 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: began to blow, but Halvor thought he hadn't seen enough yet, 68 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: and he wanted to walk a little farther, just to 69 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: see if he couldn't meet any folk. So after a 70 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: while he came to a broad high road, so smooth 71 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: and even you might easily roll an egg along it. 72 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: Halvor followed this, and when evening drew on, he saw 73 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: a great castle ever so far off, from which the 74 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: sunbeams shone. So as he had now walked the whole 75 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: day and hadn't taken a bit to eat with him, 76 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: he was as hungry as a hunter. But still the 77 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: nearer he came to the castle, the more afraid he got. 78 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: In the castle kitchen, a great fire was blazing, and 79 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: Halvor went to it. But such a kitchen he had 80 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 1: never seen in all his born days. It was so 81 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: grand and fine. There were vessels of silver and vessels 82 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: of gold, but still never a living soul. When Halivar 83 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: had stood there a while and no one came out, 84 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: he went and opened a door. And there inside said 85 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: a princess who sat upon a spinning wheel. Nay, nay, now, 86 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: she called out, dare Christian folk come hither? But now 87 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: you'd best be off about your business if you don't 88 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: want the troll to gobble you up. For here lives 89 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: a troll with three heads, all one to me, said 90 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: the lad. I'd be just as glad to hear he 91 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: had four heads. Beside, I'd like to see what kind 92 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: of fellow he is. As for going, I won't go 93 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: at all. I've done no harm, But meet you must 94 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: get me, for i am almost starved to death. When 95 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: Halivar had eaten his fill, the princess told him to 96 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: try if he could brandish the sword that hung against 97 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: the wall. No, he couldn't brandish it. He couldn't even 98 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: lift it up. Oh, said the princess. Now you must 99 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: go and take a pull of that flask that hangs 100 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: by its side. That's what the troll does every time 101 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,239 Speaker 1: he goes out to use the sword. And so Halvar 102 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: took a pull, and in the twinkling of an eye 103 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: he could brandish the sword like nothing. And now he 104 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: thought at high time the troll came and lo. Just 105 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: then up came the troll, puffing and blowing. Havor jumped 106 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: behind the door. Hutetou, said the troll, as he put 107 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: his head in the door, What a smell of christian 108 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: man's blood, Aye, said Halvor. You'll soon know that to 109 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: your cost. And with that he hewed off all his heads. 110 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 1: Now the princess was so glad she was free. She 111 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: both danced and sang. But then all at once she 112 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: called her sisters to mind, And so she said, would 113 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: my sisters were free too? Where are they asked Halvar. Well, 114 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 1: she told him all about it. One was taken away 115 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: by a troll to his castle, which lay fifty miles off, 116 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: and the other by another troll to his castle, which 117 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: was fifty miles further still. And do you know what 118 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: lay between him, Halvar, and those other castles and his 119 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: further adventure. Well nothing he couldn't skip past. It was 120 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of ads. And we're back. But now she said, 121 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: you must first help me get this ugly carcass out 122 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: of the house. Yes, Halvar was so strong he swept 123 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: everything away and made it all clean and tidy in 124 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: no time. So they had a good and happy time 125 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: of it, and next morning he set off at peep 126 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: of gray dawn. He could take no rest by the way, 127 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: but ran and walked the whole day. When he first 128 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: saw the castle, he got a little afraid. It was 129 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: far grander than the first and there wasn't a living 130 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: soul to be seen. But Halvor went into the kitchen 131 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: and didn't stop there either, went straight on further into 132 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: the house. Nay nay, called out the princess. Dare Christian 133 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: folk come hither? I don't know. I'm sure how long 134 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: it is since I came here, But in all that 135 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: time I haven't seen a Christian man towre best. You 136 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: saw how to get away as fast as you came, 137 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: For here lives a troll who has six heads. I 138 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: shan't go, said Halvar, if he had six heads. Besides, 139 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: he'll take you up and swallow you down alive, said 140 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: the princess. But it was no good. Halvor wouldn't go, 141 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: and he wasn't at all afraid of the troll. But 142 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: meat and drink he must have, for he was starved 143 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: after his long journey. Well, he got as much of 144 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: that as he wished, But then the princess wanted him 145 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: to be off again. No, said Halvar, I won't go. 146 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: I've done no harm and I have nothing to be 147 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: afraid about. He won't stay to ask, that, said the princess, 148 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: for he'll take you without law or leave. But as 149 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: soon as you won't go, just try and see if 150 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: you can brandish that sword yonder, which the troll wields 151 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: in war. He couldn't brandish it, and then the princess 152 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: said he must take a pull at the flask which 153 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: hung by its side, and when he had done that 154 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: he could brandish it. Just then back came the troll, 155 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: and he was both stout and big, so that he 156 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 1: had to go sideways to get through the door. When 157 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: the troll got his first head in, he called out, 158 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: hutu two, what a smell of christian man's blood. But 159 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: that very moment Halvor hewed off his first head, and 160 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: so on all the rest. As they popped in. The 161 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: princess was overjoyed, but just then she came to think 162 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: of her sisters and wished out loud they were free. 163 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: Halvor thought that might easily be done and wanted to 164 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: be off at once, but first he had to help 165 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: the princess get the troll's carcass out of the way, 166 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 1: and so he could only set out next morning. It 167 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 1: was a long way to the castle, and he had 168 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: to walk fast and run hard to reach it in time. 169 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: But about nightfall he saw the castle, which was far 170 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: finer and grander than either of the others. This time 171 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: he wasn't the least afraid, but walked straight through the 172 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: kitchen and into the castle. There sat a princess who 173 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: was so pretty there was no end to her loveliness. She, too, 174 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,839 Speaker 1: like the others, told him there hadn't been Christian folk 175 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,599 Speaker 1: there ever since she came thither, and bade him go 176 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: away again, else the troll would swallow him alive. And 177 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 1: do you know, she said, he has nine heads? Aye? Aye, 178 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: said Halvor. If he had nine other heads and nine 179 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: other heads, still, I won't go away. And so he 180 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: stood fast before the stove. The princess kept on begging 181 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: him so prettily to go away lest the troll should 182 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: gobble him up. But Halvor said, let him come as 183 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: soon as he likes. So she gave him the troll's 184 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: sword and bade him take a pull at the flask 185 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: that he might be able to brandish and wield it. 186 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: Just then back came the troll, puffing and blowing in, 187 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: tearing along. He was far stouter and bigger than the 188 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: other two, and he too had to go on one 189 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: side to get through the door. He said, as the 190 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: others had said, hututu, what a smell of christian man's blood. 191 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 1: That very moment Halvar hewed off the first head, and 192 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: then all the rest. But the last was toughest of 193 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: them all, and it was the hardest bit of work 194 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: Halvar had to do to get it hewn off, although 195 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: he knew very well he had strength enough to do it. 196 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: So all the princesses came together to that castle, which 197 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: was called Soria Moria Castle, and they were glad and 198 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: happy as they had never been in all their lives before. 199 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: And they were all fond of Halvar, and Halvar of them, 200 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: and he might choose the one he liked best for 201 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: his bride. But the youngest was fondest of him of 202 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 1: all the three. But there after a while Halvor went 203 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: about and was so strange and dull and silent. Then 204 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: the princesses asked him what he lacked, and if he 205 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: didn't like to live with them any longer, Yes he did, 206 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: for they had enough to spare, and he was well 207 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: off in every way. But still, somehow or other, he 208 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: did so long to go home, for his father and 209 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: mother were alive, and them he had such a great 210 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: wish to see. Well. They thought that that might be 211 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: done easily enough. You shall go thither and then come 212 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: back hither, safe and unscathed, if you will only follow 213 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: our advice, said the princesses. Yes, he'd be sure to 214 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: mind all they said. So they dressed him up till 215 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: he was as grand as a king's son, and they 216 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: set a ring on his finger. And that was such 217 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 1: a ring he could wish himself thither and hither with it. 218 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: But they told him to be sure not to take 219 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 1: it off, and not to name their names, for there 220 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: would be an end to all his bravery, and then 221 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: he'd never see them more. If only I stood at home, 222 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: I'd be glad, said Halvar, And it was done as 223 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: he wished. Then stood Halvar at his father's cottage door. 224 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 1: Before he knew a word about it. Now it was 225 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: about dusk, get even, and so when they saw such 226 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: a grand, stately lord walk in, the old couple got 227 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: so afraid they began to bow and scrape. Then Halvor 228 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: asked if he couldn't stay there and have lodging there 229 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: that night. No, that he couldn't. We can't do it 230 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: at all, they said, for we haven't this thing or 231 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: that thing which such a lord as used to have 232 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: to where best your lordship went up to the farm 233 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,199 Speaker 1: no long way off, for you can see the chimneys, 234 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: and there they have lots of everything. Halvor wouldn't hear 235 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: of it. He wanted to stop, but the old couple 236 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: stuck to their own that he had better go to 237 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: the farmers. There he could get both meat and drink. 238 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: As for them, they hadn't even a chair to offer 239 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: him to sit down on. No, said Halvor, I won't 240 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: go up there till tomorrow early. But let me just 241 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: stay here tonight. Worst comes to worse, I can sit 242 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: in the chimney corner. Well, they couldn't say anything against that, 243 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: So Halvor sat down by the ingle and began to 244 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: poke about in the ashes, just as he used to 245 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,839 Speaker 1: do when he lay at the home in old days, 246 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: and stretched his lazy bones. Well, they chattered and talked 247 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: about many things, and they told Halvar about this thing 248 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: and that, And so he asked them if they never 249 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: had any children. Yes, yes, they once had a lad 250 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: whose name was Halvar. But they didn't know whither he 251 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: had wandered. They couldn't even tell whether he were dead 252 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: or alive. Couldn't it be me, now, said Halvar. Let 253 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: me see I could tell him, well enough, said the 254 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: old wife, and rose up. Our Halvor was so lazy 255 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: and dull, never did a thing, And besides he was 256 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: so ragged that one tatter took hold of the next 257 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: tatter on him. No, there never was the making of 258 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: such a fine fellow in him as you are. Master. 259 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: A little while after, the old wife went to the 260 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: hearth to poke up the fire, And when the blaze 261 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: fell on Halvar's face, just as when he was at 262 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: home of old poking about in the ashes, she knew 263 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: him at once. Ah, but it is you, after all, Halvar, 264 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: she cried. And then there was such joy for the 265 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: old couple there was no end to it. And he 266 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: was forced to tell how he had fared, and the 267 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: old dame was so fond and proud of him. Nothing 268 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: would do but he must go up at once to 269 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: the farmers and show himself to the lassies who had 270 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: always looked down on him, And off she went first, 271 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: and Halvar followed after. So when she got up there, 272 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: she told them all how her Halvor had come home again, 273 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: and now they should only see how grand he was, 274 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: For said she, he looks like nothing but a king's son. 275 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: All very fine, said the lassies, and tossed up their heads. 276 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: We'll be bound. He's just the same beggarly ragged boy 277 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: he always was. Just then in walked Halvar, and the 278 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: lassies were also taken aback. They forgot their sarks in 279 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: the ingle where they were sitting darning their clothes, and 280 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: ran out in their smocks. Well, when they were got 281 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: back again, they were so shamefaced they scarce dared look 282 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: at Halvar, towards whom they had always been so proud 283 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: and haughty. Aye Aye, said Halvar. You always thought yourself 284 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: so pretty neat no one could ever come near you. 285 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: But now you should just see the eldest princess I 286 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: have set free. Against her, you look like just milk maids, 287 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: and the midmost is prettier still. But the youngest, who 288 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: is my sweetheart, she is fairer than both Sun and 289 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: Moon would to heaven, she were only here, said Halvar, 290 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: then you'd see what you would see. He had scarce 291 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: uttered these words before there they stood. But then he 292 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: felt so sorry. For now what they had said came 293 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: into his mind. Up at the farm there was a 294 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: great feast got ready for the princesses, and much was 295 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: made of them. But they wouldn't stop there. No, we 296 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: want to go down to your father and mother, they 297 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: said to Halvar. And so we'll go out now and 298 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: look about us. So we went down with them, and 299 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: they came to a great lake just outside the farm. 300 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: And what did they find there but goods and services. 301 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: That's what was at the lake, just a bunch of stuff. 302 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: And they listened to it all attentively, just like you're 303 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: listening now to the ads and her back. So he 304 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: went down with them, and they came to a great 305 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: lake just outside the farm. Close by the water was 306 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: such a lovely green bank. Here the princesses said they 307 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: would like to sit and rest awhile. They thought it 308 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: so sweet to sit down and look over the water. 309 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: So they sat down there, and when they had sat awhile, 310 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: the youngest princess said, I may as well comb your 311 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: hair a little Halvar. Yes, Halvor laid his head on 312 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: her lap, and so she combed his bonnie locks, and 313 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: it wasn't long before Halvor fell asleep. Then she took 314 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: the ring from his finger and put another in its stead, 315 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: And so she said, now hold me all together, and 316 00:17:55,160 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 1: now would we were all in Soria Moria Castle. So 317 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: when Halvor woke up, he could very well tell that 318 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: he had lost the princesses, and began to weep and wail, 319 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 1: and he was so downcast they couldn't comfort him at all. 320 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: In spite of all his father and mother had said, 321 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: he wouldn't stop there, but took farewell of them and 322 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: said he was safe not to see them again. For 323 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: he couldn't find the princesses again. He thought it not 324 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: worthwhile to live. Well. He still had three hundred dollars left, 325 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: so he put them into his pocket and set out 326 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 1: on his way. When he had walked a little he 327 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: met a man with a tidy horse, and he wanted 328 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: to buy it, and began to shaffer with the man. Ay, 329 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: said the man, to tell the truth, I never thought 330 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: of selling him, but if we could strike a bargain, perhaps, 331 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 1: what do you want for him, asked Halvar, I didn't 332 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: give much for him, nor is he worth much. He's 333 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 1: a brave horse to ride, but he can't draw at all. Still, 334 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: he's strong enough to carry your knapsack. And you two 335 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: turn and turn about, said the man. At last they 336 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: agreed on the price, and Halvor laid the knapsack on him. 337 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: And so he walked a bit and rode a bit, 338 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: turn and turn about. At night he came to a 339 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: green plain where stood a great tree at the roots 340 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: of which he sat down. There he let the horse loose, 341 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: but he didn't lie down to sleep, but opened his 342 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 1: knapsack and took a meal. At peep of day off 343 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,919 Speaker 1: he set again, for he could take no rest. So 344 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 1: he rode and walked and walked, and rode the whole 345 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: day through the wide wood and where there were so 346 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: many green spots and glades that shone so bright and 347 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: lovely between the trees. He didn't know at all where 348 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: he was or whither he was going, but he gave 349 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: himself no more time to rest than when his horse 350 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 1: cropped a bit of grass, and he took a snack 351 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: out of his knapsack. When they came to one of 352 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: those green glades. So he went on walking and riding 353 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: by turns, and as for the wood, there seemed to 354 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: be no end of it. But at dusk the next 355 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: day he saw a light gleaming away through the trees. 356 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 1: Would there were folk here? Away? Thought Halver, that I 357 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: might warm myself a bit and get a mo morsel 358 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: to keep my body and soul together. When he got 359 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: up to it, he saw the light came from a 360 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: wretched little hut, and through the window he saw an old, 361 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: old couple. Inside. They were as gray headed as a 362 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: pair of doves, and the old wife had such a nose. 363 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: Why it was so long? She used it for a 364 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 1: poker to stir the fire as she sat in the ingle. 365 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: Good evening, said Halvar. Good evening, said the old wife. 366 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: But what errand can you have coming in hither? She 367 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: went on, for no Christian folk have been here these 368 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: hundred years? And more Well, Halver told her all about 369 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: himself and how he wanted to get to Soria Moria Castle, 370 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,360 Speaker 1: and asked if she knew the way thither. No, said 371 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: the old wife, that I don't, But see now here 372 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: comes the moon. I'll ask her. She'll know all about it, 373 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: for doesn't she shine on everything. So when the moon 374 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: stood clear and bright over the treetops, the old wife 375 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 1: went out, Thou moon, Thou moon, she screamed, canst thou 376 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: tell me the way to Soria Moria Castle. No, said 377 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: the moon that I can't. For the last time I 378 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: shone there a cloud stood before me. Wait a bit still, 379 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 1: said the old wife to Halvor. By and bye comes 380 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: the west wind. He's sure to know it, for he 381 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: puffs and blows round every corner. Nay, nay, said the 382 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: old wife when she went out again. You don't mean 383 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: to say you've got a horse too. Just turn the 384 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: poor beastie loose in our tone, and don't let him 385 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: stand there and starve to death at the door. Then 386 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: she ran on, But you won't swap him away to me. 387 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: We've got an old pair of boots here with which 388 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: you can take twenty miles at each stride. Those you 389 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: shall have for your horse, and so you'll get all 390 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: the sooner the Soria Moria Castle. That Halvor was willing 391 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: to do at once. And the old wife was so 392 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: glad at the horse she was ready to dance and 393 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: skip for joy. For now she said, I shall be 394 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: able to ride to church, I too think of that. 395 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: As for Halvor, he had rest and wanted to be 396 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: off at once, but the old wife said there was 397 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: no hurry. Lie down there on that bench with you 398 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: and sleep a bit, for we've no bed to offer you, 399 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: and i'll watch and wake you when the west wind comes. 400 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: So after a while up came the west wind, roaring 401 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: and howling along till the winds creaked and groaned again. 402 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: Outran the old wife. Thou west Wind, Thou west wind, 403 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: can'st thou tell me the way to Sooria Moria Castle. 404 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: Here's one who wants to get thither. Yes, I know 405 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: it very well, said the west wind. And now I'm 406 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: off thither to dry clothes for the wedding that's to be. 407 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: If he's swift a foot, he can go along with me. 408 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: Out ran Halvar. You'll have to stretch your legs if 409 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: you mean to keep up, said the west wind. So 410 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: off he set over field and hedge and hill and fell, 411 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: and Halvar had hard work to keep up, well, said 412 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 1: the west wind. Now I've no time to stay with 413 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: you any longer, for I've got to go away yonder 414 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: and tear down a strip of spruce wood. First, before 415 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: I go to the bleaching ground to dry the clothes. 416 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: But if you go alongside the hill, you'll come to 417 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: a lot of lassies standing washing clothes, and then you've 418 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,919 Speaker 1: not far to go to Soria Moria Castle. In a 419 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: little while, Halvar came upon the lassies who stood washing, 420 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: and they asked if he had seen anything of the 421 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: west Wind, who was to come and dry the clothes 422 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 1: for the wedding. Aye that I have said Halvar. He's 423 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: only gone to tear down a strip of spruce wood. 424 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: It'll not be long before he's here. And then he 425 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: asked them away to Soria Moria Castle. So they put 426 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: him into the right way, And when he got to 427 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: the castle it was full of fulk and horses, so 428 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: full it made one giddy to look at them. But 429 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 1: Halvor was so ragged and torn from having followed the 430 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: west Wind through bush and briar and bog, that he 431 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: kept on one side and wouldn't show himself to the 432 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: last day when the bridal feast was to be So 433 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: when all as was then right and fitting were to 434 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: drink the bride and bridegroom's health and wish them luck, 435 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 1: And when the cupbearer was to drink to them again, 436 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 1: both knights and squires. Last of all he came and 437 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: turned to Halvar. He drank their health, but let the 438 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: ring which the princesses had put upon his finger as 439 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: he lay by the lake, fall into the grass, And 440 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: he bade the cupbearer go and greet the bride and 441 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: hand her the glass. Then up rose the princess from 442 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 1: the board at once. Who is most worthy to have 443 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: one of us? She said, he that has set us free, 444 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: or he that here sits by me as bridegroom? Well, 445 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: they all said there could be but one voice and 446 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: will as to that. And when Halvar heard that, he 447 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: wasn't long in throwing off his beggar's rags and arraying 448 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: himself as bridegroom. Aye. Aye, here is the right one, 449 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: after all, said the youngest princess, as soon as she 450 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 1: saw him. And so she tossed the other one out 451 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: the window and held her wedding with Halvar the end. 452 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 1: He always end stories. I like that story so much 453 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: because and I like this story so much because it 454 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot of like just as really annoying 455 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: tropes about like oh, I'm gonna go save the princess 456 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: and whoever saves me gets to marry me or whatever. Right, 457 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: But there's this undertone of like, okay, two things. One 458 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: the fool's journey, right, and I think Sorria and Maria, like, 459 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: I think that somehow relay how I don't have in 460 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: front of me. I was looking up before him. But 461 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: I didn't write a script. I just remembered some stuff. 462 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 1: It probably comes from Greek for like foolishness, right, And 463 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,959 Speaker 1: you have the fool's journey. You have the idea of like, 464 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 1: here's the wanderer who's just opened to the world and 465 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: off to go discover things. And in this story, like 466 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: I know I'm on on a limb here and I'm 467 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: probably wrong, there's a story of like a transnarrative here. 468 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: It reminds me a little bit of I saw the 469 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: TV clow. There's this idea of, well, there's this other 470 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 1: magical fantasy land and in that land, like it's not 471 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: about like and then I'm totally gonna sleep with the princesses. 472 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna marry one, right, But he seems 473 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 1: happiest when he's helping them clean up and when he's 474 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: lying with his head in this princess's lap and having 475 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: his hair brushed, and I just kind of have this 476 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 1: like gay off to the big city kind of vibe 477 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: to it. I don't know, and also the particular nerdivergence 478 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: of like he's just described as all he wants to 479 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,959 Speaker 1: do is sit by the fire, and he doesn't want 480 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: to work. He just wants to like poke around in 481 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: the ashes. Like that's so specific and dramatic and interesting. 482 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,479 Speaker 1: So that's sorry, Maria Castle and I hope y'all are 483 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: doing well. We'll be back next week with more book Club. 484 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: Bye everyone. It Could Happen Here as a production of 485 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: cool Zone Media. 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