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Comment
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leah
Unregistered User
(7/27/02 3:17:32 pm)
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glass hill
how did the prince get up the hill made of glass?
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Jess
Unregistered User
(7/27/02 5:16:23 pm)
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I think
If I recall, the princess rolled the apples down to him. Anyone else recall differently?
Jess
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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(7/27/02 11:52:54 pm)
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Memory
I thought he put nails in his boots.
Jane
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Lotti
Unregistered User
(7/28/02 10:08:44 am)
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Different versions
Nails under the boots, as Jane wrote, is one version I remember, as well as nails under the horse's hoofs or even diamonds in the horseshoes (I think that one was in a film version from - then - Czecheslowakia). Or simply a magic horse!
In one version of Grimm's the seven ravens, I think I recall the sister using bones to form a ladder up a glass hill. I might be mistaken there, or simply confuse it with something else... Anyone who remembers that one?
Regards, Lotti
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rachael
Unregistered User
(7/28/02 11:02:16 am)
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glass hill
in the seven ravens the good sister cuts off her little
finger to use as a key.i'm not sure but in one story
doesn't the glass mountain move on its own?
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Karen
Unregistered User
(7/28/02 5:16:29 pm)
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eagle
In the Andrew Lang version, he holds onto an eagle's talons.
k.
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kate
Unregistered User
(7/29/02 1:06:50 pm)
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ditto
In the 1970 Barthelme version, an eagle carries him up too (but he cuts off the eagle's feet, a detail that distresses me to no end--is it in any other version?).
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Karen
Unregistered User
(7/30/02 8:43:04 pm)
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Yep
Kate,
Yes, it's exactly the same in the Lang (Blue Fairy Book, I think). He latches onto the eagle's feet with something I can't remember and cuts them off when he wants to descend.
k
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Jess
Unregistered User
(7/31/02 6:40:25 am)
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Blue Fairy Book
The Blue Fairy book has enchanted horses, the princess rolling the
apples downhill, and no mention of eagle's talons. Same with the
Norse version I have.
Jess
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Kate
Unregistered User
(8/2/02 8:56:54 am)
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Feet
Why, oh why couldn't he just let go? There must be some reason of course. (Ah, fairy tales.)
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