The gods in the Hall of High Heaven gave me to the Young Prince, among with many other arrows feathered by heavenly birds. They sent him over the Floating Bridge, to bring peace to the land of the Reed Plains. When his feet touched the tops of the high hills, he...
We often gather in the mossy dell shaded by spreading pine-trees. We’ve got a magic mallet that we keep under a stone, and it can produce anything we wish for, so there’s no end to our delight. We want for nothing! Then one day when we came tripping into...
Ha! Where will you find me? Beyond thrice times three lands, in the thirteenth kingdom, on the other side of the fiery river! You wonder where Koschei the Deathless got his magic steed? I’ve got mares who fly so fast I can fly round the earth in a single day. A...
It was me who brought the queen to the fairy palace. Me! I introduced her to the fairies who granted her wish to have a child. They gave her a posy of jeweled flowers and told her that she could invoke the fairies at any time by speaking the flowers’ names. When...
I can’t talk now, because every time I go to say something, the only words that will come out of my mouth are: “Dirty creatures!” Don’t ask me why it happened. I’m sure my stepsister’s behind it. She’s the dirty creature, but...
