East of the Sun and West of the Moon — Northern Europe & Scandinavia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Norway — deep pine forest, long winter dark — for the story of a farmer's youngest daughter who rides away on the back of a great white bear. When one drop of candle wax undoes everything, she sets out to find a castle nobody can find, walking out the soles of her shoes and asking each of the four winds in turn until the North Wind carries her so far his heels drag through the sea.
Norwegian tradition. Collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe from variants recordedin the Ringerike and Telemark regions, and first published in 1844 as No. 42 of *Norske…
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