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Sweetheart Roland

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Daughter escapes murder by stepmother, flees with Roland. He disappears. She remains faithful to him and gets him as her husband after all.

Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
Marienkind
Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein
Der treue Johannes
Der gute Handel
Der wunderliche Spielmann
Die zwölf Brüder
Das Lumpengesindel
Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
Rapunzel
Die drei Männlein im Walde
Die drei Spinnerinnen
Hänsel und Gretel
Die drei Schlangenblätter
Die weiße Schlange
Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
Von dem Fischer und seiner Frau
Das tapfere Schneiderlein
Aschenputtel
Das Rätsel
Von dem Mäuschen, Vögelchen und der Bratwurst
Frau Holle
Die sieben Raben
Rotkäppchen
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Der singende Knochen
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
Läuschen und Flöhchen
Das Mädchen ohne Hände
Der gescheite Hans
Die drei Sprachen
Die kluge Else
Der Schneider im Himmel
Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack
Daumesdick
Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin
Die Wichtelmänner
Der Räuberbräutigam
Herr Korbes
Der Herr Gevatter
Frau Trude
Der Gevatter Tod
Daumerlings Wanderschaft
Fitchers Vogel
Von dem Machandelboom
Der alte Sultan
Die sechs Schwäne
Dornröschen
Fundevogel
König Drosselbart
Schneewittchen
Der Ranzen, das Hütlein und das Hörnlein
Rumpelstilzchen
Der liebste Roland
Der goldene Vogel
Der Hund und der Sperling
Der Frieder und das Katherlieschen
Die zwei Brüder
Das Bürle
Die Bienenkönigin
Die drei Federn
Die goldene Gans
Allerleirauh
Häsichenbraut
Die zwölf Jäger
Von dem Sommer- und Wintergarten
Jorinde und Joringel
Die drei Glückskinder
Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt
Der Wolf und der Mensch
Der Wolf und der Fuchs
Der Fuchs und die Frau Gevatterin
Der Fuchs und die Katze
Die Nelke
Das kluge Gretel
Der alte Großvater und der Enkel
Die Wassernixe
Von dem Tode des Hühnchens
Bruder Lustig
Der Spielhansl
Hans im Glück
Hans heiratet
Die Goldkinder
Der Fuchs und die Gänse
Der Arme und der Reiche
Das singende, springende Löweneckerchen
Die Gänsemagd
Der junge Riese
Das Erdmännchen
Der König vom goldenen Berg
Die Rabe
Die kluge Bauerntochter
Der alte Hildebrand
Die drei Vögelchen
Das Wasser des Lebens
Doktor Allwissend
Der Geist im Glas
Des Teufels rußiger Bruder
Der Bärenhäuter
Der Zaunkönig und der Bär
Der süße Brei
Die klugen Leute
Märchen von der Unke
Der arme Müllerbursch und das Kätzchen
Die beiden Wanderer
Hans mein Igel
Das Totenhemdchen
Der Jude im Dorn
Der gelernte Jäger
Der Dreschflegel vom Himmel
Die beiden Königskinder
Vom klugen Schneiderlein
Die klare Sonne bringts an den Tag
Das blaue Licht
Das eigensinnige Kind
Die drei Feldscherer
Die sieben Schwaben
Die drei Handwerksburschen
Der Königssohn, der sich vor nichts fürchtet
Der Krautesel
Die Alte im Wald
Die drei Brüder
Der Teufel und seine Großmutter
Ferdinand getreu und Ferdinand ungetreu
Der Eisenofen
Die faule Spinnerin
Die vier kunstreichen Brüder
Einäuglein, Zweiäuglein und Dreiäuglein
Die schöne Katrinelje und Pif Paf Poltrie
Der Fuchs und das Pferd
Die zertanzten Schuhe
Die sechs Diener
Die weiße und die schwarze Braut
Der Eisenhans
Die drei schwarzen Prinzessinnen
Knoist und seine drei Söhne
Das Mädchen von Brakel
Das Hausgesinde
Das Lämmchen und Fischchen
Simeliberg
Auf Reisen gehen
Das Eselein
Der undankbare Sohn
Die Rübe
Das junggeglühte Männlein
Des Herrn und des Teufels Getier
Der Hahnenbalken
Die alte Bettelfrau
Die drei Faulen
Das Hirtenbüblein
Die Sterntaler
Der gestohlene Heller
Die Brautschau
Die Schlickerlinge
Der Sperling und seine vier Kinder
Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland
Das Dietmarsische Lügenmärchen
Rätselmärchen
Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot
Der kluge Knecht
Der gläserne Sarg
Der faule Heinz
Der Vogel Greif
Der starke Hans
Das Bürle im Himmel
Die hagere Liese
Das Waldhaus
Lieb und Leid teilen
Der Zaunkönig
Die Scholle
Rohrdommel und Wiedehopf
Die Eule
Der Mond
Die Lebenszeit
Die Boten des Todes
Meister Pfriem
Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen
Die ungleichen Kinder Evas
Die Nixe im Teich
Die Geschenke des kleinen Volkes
Der Riese und der Schneider
Der Nagel
Der arme Junge im Grab
Die wahre Braut
Der Hase und der Igel
Spindel, Weberschiffchen und Nadel
Der Bauer und der Teufel
Die Brosamen auf dem Tisch
Das Meerhäschen
Der Meisterdieb
Der Trommler
Die Kornähre
Der Grabhügel
Oll Rinkrank
Die Kristallkugel
Jungfrau Maleen
Die Stiefel von Büffelleder
Der goldene Schlüssel

Once upon a time there was a woman who was a real witch and had two daughters, one ugly and bad, whom she loved because she was her real daughter, and one beautiful and good, whom she hated because she was her stepdaughter. At one time the stepdaughter had a beautiful apron which pleased the other, so that she was envious and told her mother she wanted and had to have the apron. Be quiet, my child,' said the old woman, 'you shall have it too. Your stepsister has long since deserved death, tonight when she is asleep I will come and cut off her head. Just make sure that you get into the back of the bed and push her right in front. The poor girl would have been devastated if she had not been standing in a corner and listening to everything. She was not allowed to go out of the door all day, and when bedtime came, she had to get into bed first, so that she could lie down at the back; but when she had fallen asleep, she pushed her gently in front and took her place at the back of the wall. In the night the old woman came creeping along, holding an axe in her right hand, and with her left she first felt whether someone was lying in front, and then she took hold of the axe with both hands and cut and chopped off her own child's head.

When she had gone, the girl got up and went to her sweetheart, whose name was Roland, and knocked on his door. When he came out, she said to him, "Listen, dearest Roland, we must flee quickly, the stepmother wanted to kill me, but she hit her own child. When the day comes and she sees what she has done, we are lost.' But I advise you," said Roland, "to take her wand away first, otherwise we can't save ourselves if she follows us and chases us. The girl had the wand, and then she took the dead head and dripped three drops of blood on the ground, one in front of the bed, one in the kitchen, and one on the stairs. Then she hurried away with her beloved.

When the old witch got up in the morning, she called her daughter and wanted to give her the apron, but she did not come. Then she called out, "Where are you?" "Here, on the stairs, I'm sweeping," answered the one drop of blood. The old woman went out, but saw no one on the stairs and called out again, "Where are you?" "Here in the kitchen, I'm getting warm," called the second drop of blood. She went into the kitchen, but found no one. Then she called out again, "Where are you?" "Oh, here in bed, I'm sleeping," called out the third drop of blood. She went into the chamber to the bed. What did she see there? Her own child, swimming in his blood, and she herself had cut off his head.

The witch flew into a rage, jumped to the window, and as she could see far into the world, she saw her stepdaughter hurrying away with her beloved Roland. That shall not help you,' she cried, 'even if you are already far away, you will not escape from me. She put on her mile boots, in which she made an hour with every step, and it was not long before she had caught up with them both. The girl, however, as she saw the old woman striding along, transformed her beloved Roland into a lake with her magic wand, and herself into a duck swimming in the middle of the lake. The witch stood on the shore, threw chunks of bread into it and tried hard to lure the duck, but the duck could not be lured, and the old woman had to turn back in the evening without having achieved anything. Then the girl and her beloved Roland took on their natural form again, and they went on all night until daybreak. Then the girl turned into a beautiful flower standing in the middle of a thorn hedge, and her lover Roland turned into a violin player. Not long after, the witch came striding up and said to the minstrel, 'Dear minstrel, may I break off the beautiful flower?' 'Oh yes,' he answered, 'I will play to it.' When she crawled into the hedge with haste and wanted to break the flower, for she knew well who the flower was, he began to play, and, she might want to or not, she had to dance, for it was a magic dance. The faster he played, the more powerful jumps she had to make, and the thorns tore her clothes off her body, stung her bloody and sore, and since he did not stop, she had to dance until she lay dead.

When they were released, Roland said, "Now I will go to my father and order the wedding. In the meantime I will stay here," said the girl, "and wait for you, and so that no one will recognize me, I will turn into a red boulder. Then Roland went away, and the girl stood as a red stone in the field and waited for her beloved. But when Roland came home, he fell into the trap of another, who made him forget the girl. The poor girl stood there for a long time, but when he finally didn't come back at all, she became sad and turned into a flower and thought, "Someone will probably go along and kick me over.

But it happened that a shepherd was tending his sheep in the field and saw the flower, and because it was so beautiful, he broke it off, took it with him, and put it in his box. From that time on, things went strangely in the shepherd's house. When he got up in the morning, all the work was already done: the parlor was swept, the table and benches were cleaned, the fire was built on the stove, and water was carried; and at noon, when he came home, the table was laid and a good meal was served. He could not understand how this happened, for he never saw anyone in his house, nor could there have been anyone hiding in the little hut. The good service pleased him, of course, but at last he became frightened, so that he went to a wise woman and asked her for advice. The wise woman said, "There is magic behind it; once in the morning, early in the morning, pay attention to whether something is stirring in the room, and if you see something, it may be whatever it wants, so quickly throw a white cloth over it, then the magic will be inhibited. The shepherd did as she said, and the next morning, just as the day was dawning, he saw the box open and the flower come out. He quickly jumped to it and threw a white cloth over it. Immediately the transformation was over, and a beautiful girl stood before him, who confessed to him that she had been the flower and had taken care of his household until now. She told him her fate, and because she pleased him, he asked her if she wanted to marry him, but she answered 'no,' for she wanted to remain faithful to her beloved Roland, although he had left her: but she promised that she would not go away, but would continue to keep house with him.

Now the time was approaching for Roland to hold the wedding, and according to the old custom, it was announced in the country that all the girls should gather and sing in honor of the bride and groom. The faithful girl, when she heard of this, became so sad that she thought her heart would burst in her womb and did not want to go, but the others came and fetched her. But when the time came for it to sing, it stepped back until it was the only one left, and then it could not help itself. But when it began its song, and it came to Roland's ears, he jumped up and cried, 'I know that voice, that is the right bride, I do not desire any other. Everything that he had forgotten and had disappeared from his mind had suddenly come home to his heart. There the faithful girl held wedding with his beloved Roland, and his sorrow was over and began his joy.

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