The story of devil mountain, Andersen's fairy tale devil mountain

Several lizards are running briskly through the cracks in an old tree. They know each other well because they speak the same lizard language.

"Hey, those guys who live on the old fairy mountain howl badly!" A lizard said, "Their noise kept me awake for two nights. It's almost like lying in bed with a toothache because I can't sleep anyway! "

"There must be something there!" Said another lizard. "They used four red pillars to erect the mountain until the cock crowed. The mountain is well ventilated; Those banshees also learned new dance steps, such as stamping their feet. There must be something there! "

"Yes, I just talked to an earthworm I know," said the second lizard. "Earthworms come directly from the mountains-he plows in the mountains day and night. He heard many things. Poor thing, he can't see with his eyes, but he knows how to touch the road and listen to others. The people on Devil Mountain are waiting for some guests-some prestigious guests. But who are these guests? Earthworms don't want to tell them-maybe he really doesn't know. All the pumpkin lanterns were told that they would hold a so-called torch parade. They polished the gold and silver utensils-there are many in the mountains-and put them in the moonlight! "

"Who might those guests be?" All the lizards asked together. "What happened there! Listen, what a noise! How noisy! "

Just then, the demon mountain opened. An old witch hurried out. She is neatly dressed, but she has no back. She is the housekeeper of the old demon king and a distant relative. She wears heart-shaped amber on her forehead. Her legs move quickly: Yes! Yes! Hey, she's leaving! She walked to the night crying in the swamp in one breath.

"Please go to Devil Mountain tonight," she said. "But can you help me send these invitations first? Since you are homeless yourself, you must do something! Today we have several great guests-very important magicians. The old king also hopes to take this opportunity to make a show! "

"What kind of guests do you want to invite?" Asked the night crow.

"Well, anyone can come to this grand dance, even people can come-as long as they can talk in their sleep or know something about what we do. However, people attending the first banquet should choose; We can only invite the most famous people. I once argued with the devil because I insisted that we couldn't even invite ghosts. We have to invite Hairen and his daughters first. They must enjoy visiting the dry land. But they must have a wet stone, or something better than this, as a seat; I think they will be embarrassed to refuse to come. You can also invite first-class demons, river people and fairies with tails. I don't think we should forget tomb pigs, whole horses and church children. In fact, they are all part of the church and have nothing to do with us. But that's just their job. They are very close to us and often come to see us! "

"Great!" Said the night crow, and flew away with an invitation.

The banshee has danced on the devil mountain. They danced around long scarves woven by fog and moonlight. People who like to wear this kind of thing look good when they jump. In the center of Yaoshan is a neatly decorated living room. Its floor was washed by moonlight once, and its walls were smeared with witch's wax oil, so they shone like tulip petals in front of the lamp. The kitchen is full of roasted frogs, snakeskin-colored children's fingers, cold dishes mixed with poisonous hyphae, wet mouse noses, poisonous carrots and so on. We also want malt liquor cooked by witches in the swamp and sparkling saltpeter wine in the cellar of the tomb. All the plates are very strong, including rusty nails and fragments of church windows.

The old demon king polished his golden crown with a pencil. This is a pencil for the sixth grade in primary school, and it is not easy for the old demon king to get a pencil for the sixth grade! There is a curtain hanging in his bedroom, which is glued together with snail secretions. Yes, there is a chirp in it.

"Now we're going to burn some ponytails and bristles as incense; In this way, I think my work is finished! " The old witch said.

"Dear Dad!" The youngest daughter said, "May I know who our most precious guest is now?"

"Well," he said, "I think I must make an announcement now! I have two daughters, they should be ready to get married! The two of them must get married. The old goblin from Norway came with his two young masters-each of them was looking for a wife. The old goblin lives in the old Duval Mountain. He has several palaces built of granite and a good gold mine that no one can imagine. The old goblin is a Norwegian with genuine integrity. He is always so straightforward and happy. I knew him long before I clinked glasses with him and became brothers. He came here to get a wife. Now she's dead. She is the daughter of King Mohenyan. As the saying goes, he asked for a wife on the chalk rock. Ah, how I want to see this Norwegian goblin! It is said that his children are quite rough young people, but this statement may be unfair. They will become better when they grow up. I want to see how you can teach them to be more sensible. "

"When will they come?" A daughter asked.

The old demon king said, "It depends on the wind and the weather." . "They can always find an economical way to travel! They always wait for the opportunity to come by boat. I hope they can pass Sweden, but that old guy doesn't think so! He's behind the times-I don't agree with that! "

At this moment, two jack-o'-lantern jumped up. This one jumps faster than the other, so the faster one will arrive first.

"Here they come! Here they come! " They shouted.

"Bring my crown quickly, I want to stand in the moonlight!" The old demon king said.

Several daughters opened their long bibs and bent to the ground.

Duval's old demon stood in front of them. He wore a crown made of hard icicles and smooth pine balls; In addition, he is wearing a bearskin coat and ski boots. And his son has nothing on his neck and no suspenders on his pants, because they are all very strong people.

"Is this a mound?" The youngest child pointed to the demon mountain and asked. "We call this kind of thing a pit in Norway."

"child!" The old man said, "The pit is concave downward and the hill is convex upward. Don't you have eyes on your head? "

They said that the only thing that surprised them here was that they knew the language here.

"Don't joke here!" The old man said, "otherwise people will think you are hillbillies!" " "

They walked into the devil mountain. The guests here are really high-class, and they are all invited in such a short time. People are likely to believe that they were blown together by the wind. Every guest's seat is comfortably arranged. Hairen's seats are arranged in a basin, so they say they are as comfortable as at home. Everyone is very polite, except those two goblins. They put their legs on the table, but they feel that this is in line with their identity!

"Get your feet off the plate!" The old demon said. They accepted the suggestion, but they didn't change it immediately. They tickle the ladies with pine balls; They took off their boots for their own comfort and let the ladies put them on. But their father-the old goblin-is completely different from them. He vividly described how solemn the rocky mountains in Norway are, and how the waterfall splashing white foam makes a thunderous or organ-like sound. He described that salmon went upstream as soon as they heard aquamarine playing the golden harp. He talked about how the sleigh bells jingled on a clear winter night, how the children ran on the smooth ice with torches, how to illuminate the ice brightly, and how to make the fish under the ice run around in fear. Indeed, he spoke so vividly that everyone here seemed to see with their own eyes and listen with their own ears: they seemed to see how the sawmill sawed wood and how men and women sang and danced the Norwegian "chime dance". Hua! The old demon accidentally received a loud "uncle kiss" on the old witch's face. It's a kiss! But they are not related by blood.

Now the devil ladies are going to dance. They skip the normal steps and the pedaling steps. These two steps suit them well. Then they danced a very artistic dance-they also called it "the dance that has never been seen before, and has never been seen before". Good boy! Their legs move flexibly! You can hardly tell where is the beginning and where is the end; You can't see clearly where the arm is and where the leg is. They're just like shavings. They're all mixed up. They danced round and round, which made the whole horse dizzy and had to leave the table.

"shh!" The old demon said, "This is a charming dance of thighs!" " But what can they do besides dancing, stretching their legs and fanning the flames? "

"You wait and see!" The lich king said.

So he called out his youngest daughter. She is as light and clean as moonlight; She is the most delicate of all the sisters. She put a white cork in her mouth, and then she disappeared-that's her magic.

But the old demon said he didn't want his wife to have such a skill. He thinks his son doesn't like this skill either.

The second daughter can walk side by side with her, just like a shadow-but the mountain god has no shadow.

The third daughter has a completely different set of skills. She studied in the swamp woman's wine room, so she knew how to use fireflies to grease the elderberry stump.

"She can be a good housewife!" The old demon said. He didn't propose a toast because he didn't want to drink too much, but winked at her.

Now the fourth witch has come. She has a big golden harp. The first time she played, everyone had to do what she said.

"This is a dangerous woman!" The old demon said. But his two young masters have come out of the mountains because they are tired.

"What can the next lady do?" The old demon asked.

"I learned how to love Norwegians!" She said, "If I can't go to Norway, I will never get married!" " "

But the little girl whispered to the old demon, "This is because she once heard a Norwegian song. This song says that when the world dies, the stone cliffs in Norway will still exist as monuments. So she wants to go to Norway because she is afraid of extinction. "

"oh! Oh! " The old demon said, "That's what I said in my heart!" What can the last seventh lady do? "

"There is a sixth place in the seventh place!" The Lich King said, because she can't count. But Mrs. Liu didn't want to come out.

"I can only tell the truth to people!" She said, "Nobody talks to me. I'm busy making a shroud!" " "

At this time, the seventh and last one came out. What can she do? She can tell as many stories as she wants.

"Are these my five fingers?" The old demon said. "Make up a story for each finger!"

The girl raised his wrist, and she laughed out of breath. It wears a ring, as if it knew someone was getting engaged. When she talked about "golden fire", the goblin said, "squeeze what you are holding, and this hand is yours!" I want to ask you to be a wife! "

"The story of' Golden Fire' and' Playing Bill's Friend' is not over yet," said the witch.

"Keep it for me in winter!" The old demon said. "At that time, we can also listen to stories about pine trees, alder trees, gifts from Shan Yao and frost! You can tell stories as much as possible, because no one there knows this yet! At that time, we could sit in a stone room, burn pine to keep warm, and drink mead from the trumpet-shaped gold cup of the ancient Norwegian king-Mountain View gave me two such cups! Let's sit together. Jiabao will visit us. He will sing a song about the shepherdess in the mountains for you. That is happiness. Salmon jumped in the waterfall and hit the stone wall, but it couldn't get in! Hey, living in dear old Norway is fun! But where did the two children go? "

Yeah, where are those two kids? They ran in the fields and blew away all the ghost fires that were kindly prepared to take part in the torch parade.

"You are ridiculous!" The goblin said, "I found a mother for you." Now you can also choose one of these menstruation! "

However, the young master said that they like to make speeches and drink to friendship, but they are not in the mood to ask for wives. So they made a speech, drank a toast to friendship, and put a cup on their fingertips to show that they really did it. They took off their coats and fell asleep on the table because they didn't want to be polite. But the old goblin and his lady danced in the room and exchanged boots, because it was better to exchange boots than rings.

"Now the chicken crows!" The housekeeper's old witch said. "We must close the window now, or the sun will scorch us!"

In this way, the demon mountain was closed.

But four lizards outside are running up and down through the cracks in the tree. This said to that:

"Ah, I like that old Norwegian leprechaun!"

"I like his children better!" The earthworm said. But poor guy, he can't see anything.

The original text is Elverpige. According to Danish legend, the old witch is like a mask, with a beautiful front and an empty back.

According to the old Danish superstition, every time a church is built, a horse will be buried alive. Whenever a person dies, the horse walks to his house on three legs at night. Some churches bury a pig alive. The soul of this pig is called "Tomb Pig". "Kirkgrimen" specializes in guarding the cemetery; He punished those who desecrated the cemetery.

According to Danish legend, there lived a witch in the swamp. She cooks ale every day. The fog on earth is the steam that comes out when she cooks wine.

(4) This is a Danish idiom: "Han tog sin kone paa krjd", which means "don't spend a penny to get a wife".

⑤ The original text is Morbroder-Smadsk, and its meaning is unknown. Many translators in other languages simply translate it into a kiss. Probably this kind of kiss is a kind of affectionate kiss between relatives, and there is no other meaning.

Here is the meaning of pun. According to European custom, who you give your hand to means who you promise to be engaged to.

⑦ This is a kind field fairy in Norwegian legend.