Halfway to Fairyland

  “No phones here, sweetheart. You’re beyond such things now.” “Come, come, let me brush your hair. We’ll pull all those nasty, painful thou...

This section is one of my favorites.  Having escaped the enchantress, Gerda comes across a crow. She asks him if he’s seen Kai, and he say...

  (Over the next seven weeks, I’ll be posting both the text of the Snow Queen, and my thoughts on it. This is the text of the fourth section...

  “I don’t mean to insult you, of course. I am sure that in many matters of concern to yourself, you are quite wise. But you are only human,...

In part three we learn that everyone has given Kai up for dead since he rode off with the Snow Queen. Gerda, mourning her lost friend, share...

 *edit: I have realized that this translation has excluded the section where the flowers tell their stories; I will post their piece later.*...

  “When she turned her back to us, I saw she had a tail like a donkey’s or a cow’s, the main part of it just the same color as her skin, and...