TAILIEUCHUNG - KING GRISLY-BEARD -GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE

KING GRISLY-BEARD-GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE Truyện cổ Grim là 1 trong những bộ truyện cổ tích nổi tiếng nhất thế giới. Bộ truyện này vốn đã được dịch ra nhiều thứ tiếng . Sau đây là bản tiếng Anh của bộ truyện này | KING GRISLY-BEARD A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who was very beautiful but so proud and haughty and conceited that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good enough for her and she only made sport of them. Once upon a time the king held a great feast and asked thither all her suitors and they all sat in a row ranged according to their rank kings and princes and dukes and earls and counts and barons and knights. Then the princess came in and as she passed by them she had something spiteful to say to every one. The first was too fat He s as round as a tub said she. The next was too tall What a maypole said she. The next was too short What a dumpling said she. The fourth was too pale and she called him Wallface. The fifth was too red so she called him Coxcomb. The sixth was not straight enough so she said he was like a green stick that had been laid to dry over a baker s oven. And thus she had some joke to crack upon every one but she laughed more than all at a good king who was there. Look at him said she his beard is like an old mop he shall be called Grisly-beard. So the king got the nickname of Grisly-beard. But the old king was very angry when he saw how his daughter behaved and how she ill-treated all his guests and he vowed that willing or unwilling she should marry the first man be he prince or beggar that came to the door. Two days after there came by a travelling fiddler who began to play under the window and beg alms and when the king heard him he said Let him come in. So they brought in a dirty-looking fellow and when he had sung before the king and the princess he begged a boon. Then the king said You have sung so well that I will give you my daughter for your wife. The princess begged and prayed but the king said I have sworn to give you to the first comer and I will keep my word. So words and tears were of no avail the parson was sent for and she was married to the fiddler. When this was over the king said

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