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A girl who was adopted by an abusive troll finally is freed with the help of a white lion. When her betrothed does not return after a trip, the girl is grief-stricken to learn that the troll's sister had put a spell on him and plans to marry him. The white lion appears again and helps the girl by giving her three magical gifts.
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00:00When people told themselves their past with stories,
00:13explained their present with stories,
00:16foretold the future with stories,
00:20the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.
00:30Trolls come at the bottom of the list of people you'd want as friends.
00:42They are revolting trolls.
00:45They can't even stand each other.
00:47The troll in this story had a daughter, and she left home straight off.
00:52In her place, the troll found an orphan,
00:55a young girl, to wait on him hand and foot.
00:57But this girl had more in store than to do for a troll.
01:03Oh, no.
01:05She had a destiny.
01:17Now, Anya had no father and mother,
01:20and the troll was the other,
01:22so she obeyed him, cruel though he was.
01:25But one thing the troll could not abide was obedience.
01:29Of course, if she didn't obey him, woe betide.
01:32I should have said, trolls are always contradicting themselves.
01:39And the troll liked to contradict himself with a heavy stick.
01:44It made a horrid sound as it flew through the air and onto the poor girl's back.
01:49Blue he contradicted on her back.
01:51Black and blue.
01:52I'm off with that.
01:59Inside this sack are being 20 pounds of feathers.
02:05Strip them and pack them before I come back.
02:09Yes, sir.
02:10And remember, I'm being allergic to feathers.
02:15A single one upsets my nose, a quivering and a quaking, a shimmying and a shaking, and I don't like it.
02:25Be thank you to me, and full of great.
02:28That's impossible by herself.
02:31That's not fair.
02:33I know.
02:34She plucks and cleans and packs and packs, but still the feathers fill the room, still the feathers fight the sacks.
02:47Anya.
02:47Don't be frightened.
02:51I've come to help you.
02:53Where have you come from?
02:55From your thoughts.
02:57Is there no one in the wide world to take pity on me, you thought?
03:01Well, there is.
03:03And here I am.
03:06Now, you're tired.
03:08Sleep.
03:08I cannot.
03:11The troll is my father and mother.
03:14Since I have no other, I must obey him.
03:18Trust me.
03:19Sleep.
03:21Thus persuaded, Anya lay down and fell into a slumber.
03:27And when she woke, what a sight.
03:30What a wonder.
03:31I've recurred.
03:43Yes, sir.
03:46You've done it.
03:48Have you done them all?
03:50I'm ghast and flabbered.
03:52I'm frowned and dumb.
03:55Was that a smile?
03:57No.
03:58No, sir.
03:59I don't like smiles.
04:01Get to bed without your supper.
04:13Arise and wiki.
04:15I'm having another job for you.
04:25So, observe this pond.
04:29Deep, you'd say.
04:31And you'd be right.
04:34Depths aplenty.
04:38Drain it.
04:40Drain it with your spoon.
04:43And if I be recurring and find a drop of water,
04:47if I so much as get my vootsie wet,
04:52heaven help me.
04:54Anya.
05:10Oh, lion.
05:13My spoon is full of holes.
05:17You're tired, my little.
05:19Lie down and sleep a while.
05:21No, I dare not. For my lord, the troll will beat me with his terrible stick.
05:29And then the lion pad padded to the pond and drank and drank and drank his fill.
05:38And long before sunset had drunk it dry.
05:43Well, I'm recurred. Is the pond dry?
05:47Yes!
05:48Yes? Yes, it is! How abstractly puriating!
05:55Are we sure?
06:03You may laugh, but the troll's fall cost the poor girl dear.
06:08That night she could not sleep for the colours on her back from the contradiction stick.
06:13All night she's sobbed from its blacks and blues.
06:17And come the morning, the wicked troll has another task, worse than before.
06:22Impossible!
06:24All dry, you think. All finished.
06:28You'll be wrong.
06:30Now you can build me a palatial.
06:33All the bits, all the pieces, by nightfall, miss.
06:39Hours later, she's moved one rock a few inches.
06:46Oh, dear lion
06:52But now even you cannot help me
06:56I'm to build a palace by nightfall
06:59Full of rooms and riches
07:01You're tired, my little
07:03Why not rest a while?
07:06I cannot, I dare not
07:08Sleep, rest
07:11And sleep she does
07:14Lying down beside him
07:16And as she dreams
07:17Such magic
07:19How have you done this?
07:29I know, I know I've not done as you asked
07:31You do
07:39Oh, dear, oh, dear
07:43The palace is here
07:44But Anya didn't do it
07:46There is being a contradiction
07:49And when there's being a contradiction
07:52We have to speak with our friend
07:54Don't you think?
07:56I don't know, probably
07:57Very probably
07:59Certain, in fact
08:00Look, rageous
08:03Absolutely rageous
08:06A whole palace
08:07In one day
08:09This is more like it
08:13For an important crow
08:15Good, good
08:33Chicken, good
08:35Yes, sir
08:37And what about sherry
08:39Is there a celery for wine?
08:42Go and be seeing
08:43Try that door
08:46Can't reach
08:49Let me fetch a line
08:57A true can seem perfectly clarified
08:59Oh, lion
09:08Quick, quick
09:10The troll's in terrible trouble
09:12I know
09:13Poor troll
09:22No father
09:24No mother
09:25And he was my other
09:27Not poor, my little
09:28But wicked and cruel
09:31I made the palace
09:33I also made the door
09:35Good
09:37I hated that troll
09:38He was bad
09:39Through and through
09:40Oh, yes
09:42So then what?
09:44Then our girl
09:45Has a palace
09:46All to herself
09:47What a transformation
09:50For the first time
09:52In her poor life
09:53Anya feels
09:54Wonderful
09:55Wonderful
09:55Wonderful
09:56And when word spreads
10:08Prince of a lovely thing alone
10:09In a grand palace
10:11Well, they flock to her
10:12The suitors
10:13In droves
10:14Prince
10:14La-de-da
10:15Of here
10:16Prince
10:16La-de-da
10:17Of there
10:18But they're a trifle
10:19Too much
10:19La
10:19Or a little
10:20Too much
10:20D
10:21And occasionally
10:22Plain
10:23Da
10:24And a year
10:26Goes by
10:27Until one morning
10:28She stands
10:29Sighing at her window
10:30And oh
10:31Who's this?
10:34He looks up
10:34She looks down
10:36He smiles
10:37She smiles
10:38Little fish
10:39Swim up and down
10:40Her back
10:41And suddenly
10:42Each day
10:43She wants flowers
10:44In her room
10:44Flowers at her table
10:45Flowers for her hair
10:47And gradually
10:48Smiles turn to words
10:50And words turn to whispers
10:52And whispers turn to kisses
10:54It's love
10:56She falls for the gardener
10:58Why not?
11:00She was a servant
11:01Turned princess
11:02Why not a gardener
11:04Turned prince?
11:04You were my true bride
11:06Am I?
11:12Then let no one else
11:13Ever kiss your cheek
11:14Never
11:16Never ever
11:19Never he says
11:21Never ever
11:22But I'm sorry
11:24Hurt lurks
11:26Pain prowls
11:27Sorrow simmers
11:29Why?
11:30What happens?
11:31Does a troll come back?
11:33Oh no
11:33Oh
11:34Well yes
11:36In a manner of speaking
11:38Yes he does
11:41Anya's wedding day
11:45Is beckoning
11:46Her beloved
11:49Sets off one morning
11:50The long journey
11:51To the village
11:52He has appointments
11:53With the tailor
11:54And the barber
11:54And the shoemaker
11:55Spruced up
11:57He's going to be
11:58Won't you come
12:00Won't you come?
12:00No
12:01There is my true
12:02So-to-so
12:03And you mustn't see it
12:05But I'll count the minutes
12:06Until you are home
12:08And she does
12:10She counts the minutes
12:11Counts them into the hour
12:13When the lamps must be lit
12:14Counts them as fear
12:16Curdles her stomach
12:17Counts the minutes
12:19As they turn into days
12:20As the tears begin to come
12:22One
12:24Two
12:25Three
12:26Where was he?
12:28No one knew
12:29And Anya could stand it
12:31No longer
12:32She set out alone
12:35In search of her sweetheart
12:36Until one day
12:39She finds herself
12:40Wandering in the snow
12:41Lost
12:43And ejected
12:45Anya
12:47And without a word
12:52The lion sets Anya
12:54On his back
12:54And starts off
12:55Bounding through the snow
12:57Huge strides
12:58Impossible speeds
13:00Over cliff and cavern
13:01Crevasse and chasm
13:02Cave and canyon
13:03Helter skelter
13:05To a far off land
13:06And there
13:08In sight of a town
13:09The lion sets her down
13:12Now you must go
13:18Take these
13:19Inside there are gifts
13:22Use them wisely
13:24Thank you
13:25Dearest lion
13:27And Anya walks on
13:31Carrying the three gifts
13:32My beloved
13:37My darling
13:38She cries
13:40And the rider looks at her
13:42Tips his hat
13:43Smiles politely
13:44And continues on his way
13:47Wait
13:48Please wait
13:49Please wait
13:50No no she cries
13:54But it can't be
13:55It can't be
13:56The troll
13:57It can't be
13:58He's dead
13:59And then she sees
14:02And then she sees a pigtail
14:03A diamond earring
14:04A hint of silk
14:05At the throat
14:05It's not the troll
14:07It must be
14:09It can't be
14:10But it must be
14:12His daughter
14:13It is
14:15It is the troll's daughter
14:18Twice as ugly
14:19Twice as foul
14:20And she's riding off
14:21With her beloved
14:22Oh Anya's dumbfounded
14:24How
14:25And what's happened
14:26To her darling
14:27He's forgotten her
14:28She's searched the world
14:30For him
14:30And he's forgotten her
14:31He's gone off
14:32With a trollop
14:33But then her resolve
14:36Strengthens
14:37I am the true bride
14:39And he my beloved
14:40And off she sets
14:42Determined
14:44On her way to the town
14:46She meets a man
14:47Who tells her
14:48About the troll's daughter
14:49The trollop
14:50She went to visit her dad
14:52But he disappeared
14:53She met a handsome prince
14:55And brought him back
14:56To her castle
14:56He's under her spell
14:58They're betrothed
15:00That trollop's so greedy
15:01Sees gold
15:03She wants it
15:04Silver
15:04She snatches it
15:05She collects handsome men
15:07Like ornaments
15:08My ornament
15:11She calls them
15:13So instructed
15:15Anya hurries to the town
15:18A scheme forming
15:20A plan
15:26Oi
15:33That's being lovely
15:35Prettiness
15:36I need it
15:38Madam
15:38I'm descending
15:40Is there a cost involved?
15:43I'm expecting
15:44It's a gift
15:45For your queen
15:46How kind
15:47And thank you
15:49It's magic
15:49Your majesty
15:50It cannot be sold
15:52Only exchanged
15:54Exchanged?
15:56For what?
15:57Be more clarified
15:59A night with your betrothed
16:02With my new ornament?
16:06Rageous
16:06Then you must keep
16:08What is yours
16:08And me what is mine
16:09Silk
16:11Yum
16:12Good day your highness
16:13No
16:14Back
16:15Back
16:16A night with my ornament
16:19And his very sweetheart
16:22You know
16:22How generous I've been
16:24For such a small magic
16:27Yes
16:29All right
16:31Yes
16:32Yes
16:33The bargain is struck
16:35The true bride
16:36To spend a night
16:37With her beloved
16:38Alone
16:40She thinks
16:41Once alone
16:43He'll know me
16:44My love
16:45My dearest
16:49It's me
16:50Your true bride
16:52But he wouldn't wake
16:53Please wake up
16:54Couldn't wake
16:55Please
16:56And how could he
16:57For in the cup by his bed
16:59Was a sleeping herb
17:01Powerful
17:02Lasts all night
17:04Until morning
17:05What can our girl do?
17:08The bargain's been kept
17:10The first gift
17:12Wasted
17:12What can she do
17:15But try again?
17:22Impossible
17:22Magically
17:23Coin after coin
17:25Drops to the ground
17:26The trollop
17:27Can't believe it
17:28Oi
17:29I can't believe it
17:32Quick
17:32Quick
17:33The trollop
17:33Once the deal's struck
17:34And once again
17:36A night with the beloved
17:37Swapped for the endless
17:38Gold pieces
17:39That night the same story
17:43Darling
17:49Whispers the true bride
17:51Beloved
17:53But to no avail
17:55As for the prince himself
17:57His days are vague
17:59His nights dreamless
18:01Stopping him
18:02Ask him his thoughts
18:03And what would they be?
18:04Oh
18:06Oh well
18:07The trollop has rubbed away
18:10His past
18:10With her wicked spell
18:11He hasn't heard
18:13His true love
18:14Singing the night through
18:15Weeping in the morning
18:17Oh
18:18He says
18:19Well
18:20But the prisoners have
18:22Their eyes blinking
18:24In the black
18:25Their ears sharp
18:26Yes
18:26They've heard
18:27The clink of gold
18:28But also
18:29The true bride's lament
18:31So the next day
18:34When the prince is walking
18:35The ramparts
18:36They call out to him
18:38Your honor
18:39How can you sleep at night
18:42With the beauties
18:43Singing by your bed
18:45Beloved
18:47She calls you
18:47And dearest
18:49Your true bride
18:51She cries
18:52I am your true bride
18:55When do you hear these things?
18:57All night
18:59All night
19:00He's heard nothing
19:02Who is his true bride?
19:06He's very confused
19:07Very
19:08And you see
19:09He sleeps so deeply
19:11Every night
19:12He has his drink
19:13Then sleeps so deeply
19:15Oi
19:18Oi
19:18I'm being so impatient
19:20For a new toy
19:22Let me see
19:23Let me see
19:24Oh
19:25So meable
19:31So agreeable
19:33I need
19:35And the deal is struck
19:37And that night
19:39Anya arrives
19:40For her vigil
19:41The final gift gone
19:43Will you never wake?
19:54Don't cry
19:55What?
19:59What?
20:02Oh my darling
20:04No
20:06Not there
20:07I promise you see
20:09I
20:11Not on my cheek
20:13Me
20:14You promised me
20:16And with that
20:18She kissed him
20:18And the trollop's spell over him
20:21Fell away
20:21And his head cleared
20:23Such a tender kiss
20:26Such sweetness of cheek
20:28My true bride
20:30He whispers
20:31He whispers
20:31My true bride
20:34At the very same moment
20:38In the vaults of the castle
20:39A strange thing happens
20:42Very odd
20:43Come back
20:50My goldies
20:51My silknesses
20:54My die dies
20:57Too late
21:03They've gone
21:04They're away
21:05The lovers
21:05Home
21:05Running
21:06Home
21:06Together
21:07After them
21:08Get them back
21:08Hurry
21:09And in her rage
21:10The trollop closes on them
21:12Nearer and nearer
21:13Until she must surely
21:14Catch them
21:15But look
21:23She can't believe it
21:26Look who's here
21:27On his back
21:28They clamber
21:29And off his speed
21:29Rounding the barren lands
21:31Huge strides
21:31Impossible speeds
21:32Over cliff and cabin
21:33Crevasse and chasm
21:34Cave and canyon
21:35Helter skelter
21:36Home
21:37They made it
21:39Yes
21:40They made it
21:41Thank you lion
21:42And inside
21:43Lock the door
21:44Catch up their breath
21:45They light a fire
21:49And exchange their stories
21:50And in between
21:51Hugs and all the wild kisses
21:54The lion tosses back
21:55His proud mane
21:57And pads away
21:58Leaving the lovers
21:59But not before
22:00A final task unseen
22:02What?
22:03Ah
22:04Well
22:04Who have we forgotten?
22:06The trollop
22:07Where is she?
22:09I don't know
22:10Miles away
22:11Over cliff and cavern
22:12Crevice and chasm
22:13Cave and canyon
22:14Oh no
22:14No
22:15By the time
22:16The true bride
22:17And her beloved
22:17Settle down to sleep
22:18She's arrived
22:20At the palace
22:21Once inside
22:23She sniffs for them
22:25Her nostrils
22:26Twitching and heaving
22:27Planning her revenge
22:28There
22:30Her nose tells her
22:31And stealing up
22:32She hears their voices
22:34Clear and unsuspecting
22:36Behind the door
22:38Ah
22:38And from that day
22:44Our lovers lived peacefully
22:47Babies came to bless them
22:49And the sun forever shone
22:51And they kept a statue
22:53Of the lion
22:54Whom they both called
22:55The thought lion
22:56And they told their children
22:58He could come alive
22:58In an instant
22:59If he wanted to
23:00Or if they ever needed him
23:02But the children
23:03Found that hard to believe
23:05And they kept a statue
23:08And they kept a statue
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