Fairy tales of Lapland

I hope it helps you Lapland is located in Finland, the northern part of Norway, which is three-quarters of the way to the Arctic Circle. During the eight-month-long winter, everywhere is covered with snow, and as far as the eye can see, it is crystal clear, as if it were a paradise. Lapland: here lives the Queen of Snow, she said so; it is snowy all year round, the end of the north, Lapland; in the deepest and coldest place, there is the palace of the Queen of Snow; the snow builds the wall, the cold wind makes the window in the ice palace; cut off from all the warmth of the world, a person icy cold Queen of Snow; she is the most beautiful person in the world, but also the loneliest person; so it can only be taken away from Gaj! ; she said so; are you also taken away by the Queen of Snow; Gerda came to Lapland where the Queen of Snow lives in order to look for Gaj; and me, I ...... The most beautiful and lonely in the world my Queen; I came to find you ...... ---- The Snow Queen: Once upon a time, the worst guy in the world, called "The Devil", made a mirror that turned black and white upside down. He made a mirror that turned black and white upside down, and when something that was obviously beautiful was looked at in front of the mirror, it turned out to be the ugliest thing. The devil publicized this mirror everywhere, and as a result, robbers became heroes, demonesses became beautiful women, ugly toads became kings, goodness became crime, and the world was distorted by the devil. The devil was so pleased with himself that he wanted to take the mirror with him to turn God into a clown and angels into monsters. When he was about to fly to heaven, the mirror laughed so strangely that the devil could not control it. So the mirror slipped out of the devil's hand and fell into a million pieces, flying all over the world and sticking to everything that touched them. In this way, the pieces of the mirror flew into people's eyes, and the person looked at everything; if they drilled into a person's heart, his heart immediately turned into ice and was devoid of feelings. In a large city there was a boy named Gaj and a girl named Gerda, whose homes were connected, and who died very close friends. In winter, snowflakes flying one night, Gaj suddenly saw, outside the window, a very large snowflake fell on the bridge, more and more big, and finally turned into a woman. She was veiled in white snow, her body glowed with a dazzling light, and her two eyes sparkled. She waved her hand at Gaj, who hurriedly lowered her head, her heart scared. At that moment, she flew away. One day after winter, Gaj went to find Gerda, and the two were looking at a picture book together when the bell rang outside. Gaj stuck his head out of the window, and the shards of the mirror that flew with the wind fell into Gaj's eyes and drilled into his heart. The kind-hearted Gaj immediately turned into a heartless man, and his heart turned into ice. From then on he was no longer good with Gerda, and often bullied and ridiculed her. Another snowy winter came, and poor Gerda was at home crying sadly because Gaj ignored her, while Gaj went skiing in the square with a sled on his back. At that moment, a big sled slides past Gaj, and the person on the sled smiles at Gaj, who turns out to be the very famous Snow Queen, whose whole body shines with white light. Her hat and boots were all made of snow, and the Snow Queen said to Gaj, "Come on! Warm up in my leather coat", and Ghai got into the Snow Queen's leather coat, and she kissed Ghai on the head and said, "Now you're not cold!" He felt the Ice Queen's kiss like a piece of ice on his heart and he forgot all about it. The Ice Queen made him sit on the sledge and took him flying into the sky with her. When spring came and Gaj followed the Snow Queen, everyone thought he might be dead, and Gerda thought so too, so she cried even more. But the swallows and the sunbeams thought that Gaj had only gone far away and might not be dead. So one morning Gerda put on her beloved red shoes and decided to set out to find Gaj. She went to the edge of the city and sat down in a boat, she threw her red shoes into the center of the river and gave them to the little river to take her to Gaj. Soon the boat took her to a large cherry orchard with a thatched-roofed house inhabited by an odd-looking old hag. Gerda tells the old witch about her search for Gaj, and the witch tells Gerda not to be too sad and to take her in for a few days. The next day, the witch wanted Gerda not to be too sad, so she cast a spell to make her forget everything. One day, Gerda saw the roses on the witch's hat and remembered that she had told Gaj that she would hand-knit roses for his hat. So, she went to ask the rose in the garden if it knew where Gaj was, and the rose said it didn't know, but it was sure that Gaj wasn't dead because he wasn't buried under the ground, and Gerda decided to escape from the cherry orchard. When she escapes, she realizes that it's fall and she doesn't even have her shoes on and feels pain in her feet, but she still has to get to Gaj fast! The winter snow was already half an inch thick, and Gerda was cold and tired when she met a crow. She asked the raven if he knew where Ghai was, and the raven told her that Ghai had a big wedding because he had answered the princess's wedding question correctly, and was now a prince. So Gerda asked the raven to take her inside the palace, only to find that the prince was not Ghai, and that the princess, because she sympathized with Gerda, had given her a carriage made of gold, a pair of thick gloves, and a coachman with a retinue of attendants. Gerda rode in the carriage, through the thick woods, hiding behind the rocks of the bandits found the golden carriage, they defeated everyone, the leader of the bandits is a tall and fat female bandits, just when she wanted to kill Gerda, the youngest daughter of the female bandits begged for mercy to spare a life. So they got into the carriage together and drove towards the robbers' cave, where there were a hundred pigeons perched on wooden planks, and on the roof of the cave hung two bird-cages with two pairs of flower-doves in them, and against the corner of the cave beyond was a large reindeer, and Gerda spoke to the little girl about looking for the gai. The next day the little girl wondered how she could persuade the robbers to let Gerda go to Ghai. At that moment, one of the spotted doves suddenly said, "Coo-coo, I know where Ghai is, I saw Ghai sitting on the Snow Queen's sleigh, flying north, probably on an island in the Arctic Ocean." Then the little girl and Gerda went and asked the reindeer how to get there, and the reindeer said that to get to the Snow Queen's palace they must first go to Lapland. So the little girl made the robbers drunk, and took two loaves of bread hay a large piece of ham for Gerdal, and told her to sit on the reindeer and run away quickly, and the reindeer ran through the ice and snow, and the Northern Lights in the distance sent out blue flames like lightning, and when the grain was eaten they went to Lapland. Gerdal and the reindeer came to a little house and stopped, and there was an old woman in the little house, and the reindeer told her about Gerdal, and she told them both to eat something, for it was more than fifteen hundred miles to the palace of the Snow Queen. There was a place there called Finnmark, where the Ice Queen was on vacation, and she radiated the blue flames of the Aurora Borealis every day. Before the reindeer set out, the old woman took out a bundle of dried codfish rolls, wrote some words on them, tied it to the reindeer's backs, and they waved the old woman goodbye. Soon they reached Finnmark and came to the house of the Finnish woman, whose house was very hot, and when the woman had opened the cod-roll and read it, she cooked the dried cod and ate it, and Gerda asked the woman if she knew the whereabouts of Gaj. The woman said that Gaj was in the Ice Queen's palace, because he had a shard of a mirror in his heart and a shard of slag in his eye, so he looked at everything and was an ice cube, and that only by taking out the shard could he become a real person, or else he would have to stay in the Ice Queen's palace forever. You have the innocent and kind heart of a child, that's your strength, it's only six miles from here to the palace, quickly let the reindeer take you there! The reindeer took Gerda to a clump of bushes in the snow and let Gerda go forward on her own. Gerda stood in the wintry wilderness, and the snowflakes kept coming at her, and the snowflakes attacked her in strange shapes, for they were the warriors of the Snow Queen, guarding the palace. Gerda's spirit touched God, and God sent the angel Angel to help her defeat the snowflake warriors. The Ice Queen's palace was very large, everything was made of ice and snow and shone like clear glass, there was a frozen lake in the hall which was the lake of sanity of the world, the Ice Queen sat in the center and observed all the things that happened in the world. Ghai was playing jigsaw puzzle not far away from the queen, his face had been frozen to give off a greenish-black color, the Snow Queen said to Ghai, if you can spell out the word "Eternity", you are your own true master, you are free. With these words, the Snow Queen flew away to cool down the volcano. Gerda walked into the palace and recognized Ghai, who was very happy to pounce on her. But Gaj was cold and unresponsive. Gerda broke down and cried, and her eyes flowed into Gaj's heart like an endless hot spring until the pieces of the mirror in her heart melted away. At that moment, Ghai's eyes moved and began to look at Gerda, who then sang Ghai's favorite song: "When the roses bloom, we see God" Ghai suddenly cried out, and the hot tears melted out of the fragments in his eyes, and he finally recognized Gerda, and they embraced each other so tightly that the ice around them danced a happy dance for them. They hugged each other so tightly that even the ice around them danced for them. When they lay down tired, the two of them just formed the pattern of "eternity". Gai, now free, took Gerda's hand and together they walked out of the Snow Queen's palace to find the reindeer waiting for them. The reindeer took them to the Finnish woman's house and then to the old woman in Lapland, who had prepared new clothes and a new sleigh for them, and they said goodbye with thanks to the old woman and started to go home.

Spring came, and Gerda and Gaj returned home, and they sat together on the little bridge, hand in hand, feeling very happy! Very long story, beautiful story. I think only Hans Christian Andersen, was able to leave traces of wisdom in the sacred pure land of Lapland. The locals say that Lapland is the birthplace of Santa Claus, a truly mystical and magical world. Only by standing in Lapland can you feel the breath of snow and the splendor of the aurora borealis. Lapland - the place I long for!