“Fire” ( Dat. Fyrtøiet ) - a fairy tale by Danish writer and poet Hans Christian Andersen , was first published May 8, 1835 in the collection of tales “Tales told for children” ( dates. “Eventyr, fortalte for Børn” ). Translation from Danish into Russian by Anna Vasilievna Gansen .
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 Illustration Wilhelm Pedersen (1874-1930), Andrsen's first fairy tale illustrator | |
| Genre | Fairy tale |
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| Original language | Danish |
| Date of first publication | May 8, 1835 |
Content
Story
There was a soldier from the war. On the way I met an ugly old woman (witch). The witch asked the soldier to climb into the hollow of an old tree and promised that he would find there a lot of money that he could take for himself. But only the money is in three chests, each of which is in a separate room. A dog sits on each of the chests, one worse than the other. The first eye is like tea cups, the second - like mill wheels, and the third, the most terrible, each eye with a round tower . And the witch told the soldier how to deal with the dogs so that they would not cause harm. And for myself, I asked to bring her an old flint.
He climbed into the hollow, found three rooms there, in each room a chest, on each chest a dog. He scored money as much as he could. He took the flint. And when he got out, everything doesn’t give him peace, why the old woman needs an old flint, but no money is needed. But the old woman does not speak. The soldier became angry and chopped off her head with his saber. And he went to the city where the princess lived. Nobody could only see this princess, because there was a prediction about her that she would marry a simple soldier. And she was locked in a high tower to prevent this from happening.
The soldier quickly spent all the money and then remembered the flint. The flint turned out to be magical. It could cause dogs from the dungeon in a hollow. And the dogs could fulfill any desire.
The soldier asked the dog to bring the princess to him. Three times the dog brought the princess. The princess liked the soldiers, and she told him.
For the third time, the king tracked down where the princess was going. He ordered the soldier to be seized and executed the next morning. But the flint rescued the soldier again. Dogs saved him. And since, in saving the soldier, they killed the king, the city residents asked the soldier to become their king, and the princess asked him to marry her.
The soldier became king and married the princess.
Films
- Flint / Fyrtøjet - 1946, Denmark, dir: Svend Methling, the first Danish feature film
- Flint / Elddonet - 1951, Sweden, dir: Helg Hagerman
- Flint / Das Feuerzeug - 1958, Germany (GDR), dir: Siegfried Hartmann
- “ Old, Old Tale ” (1968, USSR, dir: Nadezhda Kosheverova ), based on three fairy tales by H. K. Andersen “Flint”, “Swineherd” and “Dureny Hans”.
- Flint / Křesadlo - 1985, Czechoslovakia, dir: Dagmar Doubkova
- “Flint” / Fyrtøjet - 1993, Denmark, dir: Mikhail Baditsa, short
- Flint / Fyrtøjet - 2005, Denmark, dir: Jörgen Bing, short
- “Flint” - 2009, Russia, dir: Maria Parfenova, cartoon
- Duch nad zlato - 2013, Czech Republic, dir: Zdenek Zelenka
Notes
Links
- "Fyrtøiet . " Original text in Danish ( facsimile of the first edition ).
- About editions and translation in Russian (since 1898) on fantlab.ru
- Illustrations for the tale of Vladislav Yerko . V. Begichev. The journal " Science and Religion ", No. 2012-01
- Book with illustrations by W. Tauber (1963) on the site book-illustration.ru
- A book with illustrations by V. Chizhikov (1972) on the site book-illustration.ru
- Book with illustrations by A. Kokorin (1984) at book-illustration.ru