Episode Details

A sportsman's snipe teaches him that every parent thinks their own children prettiest; a lassie whose godmother is the Virgin Mary herself endures years of trial in silence and is restored at last; three strange aunts save a lazy spinner from the work she dreaded, and explain the shapes that work has given them; the cock, the cuckoo, and the black-cock settle between them who shall have the cow; and stingy Gertrude, who grudged our Lord and St Peter a cake, is changed into the woodpecker. Five tales from Dasent's collection.

Chapters:

0:00 Opening

0:06 One's Own Children Are Always Prettiest

1:16 The Lassie and Her Godmother

13:23 The Three Aunts

24:07 The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Black-Cock

25:09 Gertrude's Bird

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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