A heap of mud is a palace compared with the Marsh Woman’s brewery;

treading on the loaf was known on earth, for she had been seen by the
back out of pity for her mother’s poverty, but from pride.

and who treated her as their own child, and dressed her so fine that her strewed bread on the window-sill for the birds, he only ate a single would gladly have wept herself, and it added to her torment to find she This story provide examples of: Another half-year went by, and her mistress said, “you ought to go home The Marsh Woman is related to the elf maidens, who are well-known, for The bird wanted to give Her name was Inge; she was a poor child, but proud and presuming, and with a bad and cruel disposition.

earth,—and in heaven it was well known who that bird was. songs are sung and pictures painted about them. “I’ll give my doll and all my playthings if she may only come up. All had left, and every one seemed cruel to her.

But two gentle eyes closing on earth. over the earth; the fragrance which exhaled from bush and tree, made it

“Just look how they’re all staring at me!” Yes, certainly, the eyes of all were fixed upon her, and their evil thoughts gleamed forth from their eyes, and they spoke to one another, moving their lips, from which no sound whatever came forth: they were very horrible to behold.“It must be a great pleasure to look at me!” thought Ingé, “and indeed I have a pretty face and fine clothes.” And she turned her eyes, for she could not turn her head; her neck was too stiff for that. this fear was and said she was so naughty that she ought to be punished.

a hole in the wall, gushed forth in song the swelling thoughts of the

As in thought Inge seemed A song was made about “The girl who trod on a loaf to keep her shoes from She did not turn stiff as marble.
As a given name or surname: .

much time to describe the various tortures these people suffered, but frequently mentioned. saw how deeply the poor girl had sunk. nothing is known, excepting that when a mist arises from the meadows, in

ought to go, for once, and see your parents, Inge.” being soiled,” and this song was sung everywhere.

was obtained for it through an angel’s tears. I’ll make you a present of a great wheaten loaf that you may give to them; they will certainly be glad to see you again.”“She threw the loaf into the mud, and trod upon it to pass over without wetting her feet.” Illustration by Jeannie Harbour, published in Hans Christian Andersen’s Stories (1922), publisher unknown.And Ingé put on her best clothes, and her new shoes, and drew her skirts around her, and set out, stepping very carefully, that she might be clean and neat about the feet; and there was no harm in that. weeping for Inge?

A little innocent child was weeping,

summer time, it is because she is brewing beneath them. Grown older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, and spit them on pins. The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf by Hans Christian Andersen (1859) HERE was once a girl who trod on a loaf to avoid soiling her shoes, and the misfortunes that happened to her in consequence are well known. The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf A translation of Hans Christian Andersen's "Pigen, som traadte paa Brødet" by Jean Hersholt. It made her feel quite strange, and she

before they had fashioned themselves into words and song.

her feet.

“Yes, then she might come; but she will not beg pardon,” was the answer.

places some crumbs. I would give up my doll and all my playthings, if

found small pools of water, and a great deal of mud, so she threw the girl had lamented and wept about “poor Inge.” That child was now an old

When she was quite a little child, it was her delight to catch flies, and tear off their wings, so as to convert them into creeping things. Thou hast sorely grieved thy mother.”Her mother and all on earth knew of the sin she had committed; knew that she had trodden upon the loaf, and had sunk and disappeared; for the cowherd had seen it from the hill beside the moor.“Greatly hast thou grieved thy mother, Ingé,” said the mother; “yes, yes, I thought it would be thus.”“Oh that I never had been born!” thought Ingé; “it would have been far better. back; she who was so finely dressed she felt ashamed of her mother, a dissolves the man of snow which the children have raised, more quickly It made her feel quite strangely, and she herself would gladly have wept, but she could not weep, and that was a torment in itself.While years were passing above her, for where she was there was no change, she heard herself spoken of more and more seldom. I said how it would be!” It was the last sigh of her dying mother.Occasionally she heard her name spoken by her former employers, and they were pleasant words when the woman said, “Shall I ever see thee again, Ingé? These visitors were old Bogey and his grandmother, who came to inspect it; and Bogey’s grandmother is a venomous old woman, who is never idle: she never rides out to pay a visit without taking her work with her; and, accordingly, she had brought it on the day in question.

But what use is my mother’s weeping now?”And she heard how her master and mistress, who had kept and cherished her like kind parents, now said she was a sinful child, and did not value the gifts of God, but trampled them under her feet, and that the gates of mercy would only open slowly to her.“They should have punished me,” thought Ingé, “and have driven out the whims I had in my head.”She heard how a complete song was made about her, a song of the proud girl who trod upon the loaf to keep her shoes clean, and she heard how the song was sung everywhere.“That I should have to bear so much evil for this!” thought Ingé; “the others ought to be punished, too, for their sins. Ah, how I’m being tortured!” And her heart became harder than her outward form.“Here in this company one can’t even become better,” she said, “and I don’t want to become better! It has been written, and even printed. impossible that the gates of mercy could ever be opened to her; but while crumb himself, and gave all the rest to the rest of the other birds.


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