Sharing PowerPoint presentations created by each partner school team in which the fairy-tales illustrate the ancient and intimate connection between language and landscape

1. By Petre Ispirescu

2. A king goes to war and tells his
daughters they may go anywhere in
the castle except one room. One day,
they disobey and find a book open in
it. It says that the oldest shall marry
a prince from the east, the second a
prince from the west, and the
youngest a pig from the north. The
youngest is horror-struck, but her
sisters manage to convince her that
it is impossible.

3. The king returns and
discovers, from the
youngest unhappiness,
what they had done. He
resolves to face it as best
they can. A prince from the
east marries the oldest, and
a prince from the west the
second, and the youngest
becomes distressed. A pig
comes to woo her, and
when the king would have
refused his consent, the
city fills with pigs. The king
tells his daughter that he is
certain there is something
strange about this pig, and
that he believes magic has
been at work. If she were to
marry the pig, it might be
broken.

4. She marries the pig and goes off with
him. At his home, he becomes a man
every night, and is so kind that he wins
her heart. She asks an old witch what
happened to her husband. The witch tells
her to tie a thread to his foot to free him.
When the young wife does so, her
husband wakes and tells her that the
spell would have fallen from him in three
days, but now he must remain in this
shape, and she will not find him without
wearing out three pairs of iron shoes and
blunting a steel staff.

5. She sets out as soon as
she gets herself three pairs
of iron shoes and a steel
staff. She wanders far, until
she comes to the house of
the Moon. The Moon's
mother lets her in, and
while she is there, she
gives birth to a son. The
Moon's mother tells her
that the Moon could not tell
her where to find her
husband, but she can go
on, to the Sun. She also
gives her a chicken and
tells her to keep every one
of the bones. The princess
thanks her, throws away
one pair of shoes, which
was worn out, and puts on
another.

7. She finally wends her way to the
Sun's house, and the Sun's mother
lets her in. She hides her, because
the Sun is always ill-tempered when
he returns. He is, but his mother
soothes him, and asked about her
husband. He cannot tell her, so his
mother sends her on, to the Wind.
Also, she gives her a chicken and
tells her to keep care of the bones.
Here, she throws out the second pair
of shoes.

9. At the Wind's house,
his mother discovers
that her husband lives
in a wood no axe could
cut through. She sends
her to it, with a chicken
and instructions to
keep every bone. The
princess goes on,
although her third pair
of shoes wears
through, on the Milky
Way. She finds the
castle where her
husband lives, and the
bones stick together to
form to her a ladder to
let her in.

11. She is one bone short, and cuts off her little
finger to complete the ladder. Her husband
returns, and the spell on him is broken. He reveals
that he is a prince, who had killed a dragon, and
the dragon's mother, a witch, had turned him to
that shape and then advised her to tie the string to
keep him in it. They set out to his father's
kingdom, and then return to her father's kingdom.