Episode Details

Popular Tales from the Norse — Part 2 of 14 (The Mastermaid — Part One)

Boots out-tells a princess, a fox talks his way into work, and a prince meets the Mastermaid. In Boots Who Made the Princess Say, "That's a Story", a king's daughter is such a teller of tall tales that Boots wagers he can make her cry out that his story is a lie — and wins. In The Fox as Herdsman, the fox begs a job guarding the herd, with predictable results. In The Mastermaid — Part One, a prince in service to a giant survives impossible tasks with secret help from the giant's own Mastermaid.

Chapters:

0:00 Opening

0:04 Boots Who Made the Princess Say, "That's a Story"

4:56 The Fox as Herdsman

7:56 The Mastermaid — Part One

From Popular Tales from the Norse (first edition, 1859), translated by George Webbe Dasent from the tales collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe — a fresh in-house modernised rendering.

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