" Eastern Sun and West Moon " (Norwegian: ÃÆ'ËÅ"stenfor sol og vestenfor mÃÆ' Â ne ) is a Norwegian fairy tale.
"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" was collected by Peter Christen AsbjÃÆ'¸rnsen and JÃÆ'¸rgen Moe. This is Aarne-Thompson type 425A, quest for missing husband; Other stories of this type include "Black Bull of Norroway", "The King of Love", "The Brown Bear of Norway", "The Daughter of the Skies", "The Enchanted Pig", "The Tale of the Hoodie" "Master Semolina", "The Sprig of Rosemary", "The Enchanted Snake", and "White-Bear-King-Valemon". The Swedish version is called "Prince Hat under the Ground". This is related to the story "Cupid and Psyche" in The Golden Ass and for "Beauty and the Beast".
It was included by Andrew Lang at The Blue Fairy Book .
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Synopsis
The White Bear approached a poor peasant and asked if he would give his youngest and youngest daughter; in return, the bear will make him rich. The girl was reluctant, so the farmer asked the bear to come back, and in the meantime, persuade her. The White Bear took him to a rich and enchanted castle. At night, he took off his bear shape to come to his bed as a man, though lack of light meant he never saw him.
As she grows homesick, the bear agrees that she may come home as long as she agrees that she will never talk to her own mother, but only when others are about. At home, they greet her, and her mother tries constantly to talk to her, eventually succeeding and persuading her to tell the whole story. Hearing it, her mother insisted that the White Bear should really be a troll, give her some candles, and tell her to turn it on at night, to see what's sharing her bed.
The youngest daughter is obedient, and finds her a very attractive prince, but she spills three drops of fat melting at him, waking her up. He tells him that if he lasts a year, he will be free, but now he has to go to his evil stepmother, who lured him into this form and lived in a castle in the east and west of the moon, and married his creepy daughter, a princess troll.
In the morning, the youngest daughter finds that the palace has vanished. He starts looking for him. Coming to a big mountain, he found an old lady playing with a golden apple. The youngest daughter asked if she knew her way to the castle in the east sun and west of the moon. The old lady could not tell her, but lent her youngest daughter a horse to reach out to a neighbor who might know, and give her an apple. His neighbor sat outside the other mountain, with a gold carding comb. He, too, did not know his way to the eastern castle from the sun and west of the moon, but lent the youngest daughter of a horse to reach a neighbor who might know, and gave her a carding comb. The third neighbor has a gold spinning wheel. He, too, did not know his way to the eastern castle from the sun and west of the moon, but lent the youngest daughter of a horse to reach the East Wind and gave him a spinning wheel.
The East Wind has never been to the eastern castle from the sun and west of the moon, but his brother West Wind may, become stronger. He took it to the West Wind. The West Wind does the same, bringing it to the South Wind; The South Wind does the same thing, taking it to North Wind. The North Wind reported that he once blew an aspen leaf there, and was exhausted afterwards, but he would take it if he really wanted to leave. The youngest daughter did want to leave, so she took her there.
The next morning, the youngest daughter took out the golden apple. The princess of the troll who marries the prince sees it and wants to buy it. The girl agrees, if she can spend the night with the prince. The princess of the troll agreed but gave the prince a drink of sleep, so the youngest daughter could not wake her. The same thing happened the following night, after the youngest daughter paid a troll princess with a gold carding comb. During the girl's attempt to wake the prince, her tears and vocations were heard by some of the city's inmates imprisoned in the castle, who told the prince. On the third night, in return for the gold spinning wheel, the troll's daughter brought a drink, but the prince did not drink it, and so woke up for the youngest daughter's visit.
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