Japanese–English parallel text
ホレおばさん
Mother Holle
Brothers Grimm
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昔々、あるところに二人の娘を持つ未亡人がいた。一人は美しくて働き者だったが、もう一人は醜くて怠け者だった。
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy.
しかし母親は、醜くて怠け者の娘のほうを可愛がった。自分の実の娘だったからだ。そのため、継娘にすぎないもう一人の娘は、家の仕事をすべてさせられ、まるでその家のシンデレラのようだった。
The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family.
継母は毎日、娘を街道沿いの井戸のそばに座らせた。そして指から血が出るまで、そこで糸を紡がせた。
Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.
ある日のこと、つむに血がついてしまった。娘がそれを洗い流そうと井戸の上に身をかがめると、つむは不意に手から滑り落ちて、井戸の底へ沈んでしまった。
Now it chanced one day that some blood fell on to the spindle, and as the girl stopped over the well to wash it off, the spindle suddenly sprang out of her hand and fell into the well.
娘は泣きながら家に走り帰り、その不運を話した。しかし継母は厳しく怒鳴りつけ、ひどく叱ったあとで冷たく言った。「井戸につむを落としたんだから、自分で取っておいで」
She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, ‘As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.’
娘はどうしてよいかわからず、井戸へ戻った。そして困り果てた末に、つむを追って水の中に飛び込んだ。
The girl went back to the well not knowing what to do, and at last in her distress she jumped into the water after the spindle.
その後のことは何も覚えていなかった。目を覚ますと、そこは日の光にあふれ、見渡す限り無数の花が咲き乱れる美しい草原だった。
She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.
娘が草原を歩いていくと、パンでいっぱいのパン焼き釜があった。するとパンたちが声をあげた。「わたしたちを出して、出して! ああ、真っ黒に焦げてしまうよ。とっくに焼けているんだから」
She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.’
そこで娘はパン用のシャベルを取り、パンをすべて外へ出してやった。
So she took the bread-shovel and drew them all out.
娘がもう少し先へ進むと、リンゴが実った木があった。「わたしを揺すって、揺すっておくれ」と木が叫んだ。「リンゴがどれもすっかり熟しているんだ」
She went on a little farther, till she came to a tree full of apples. ‘Shake me, shake me, I pray,’ cried the tree; ‘my apples, one and all, are ripe.’
そこで娘が木を揺すると、リンゴが雨のように降ってきた。それでも木に一つもリンゴが残らなくなるまで、娘は揺すり続けた。それからリンゴを丁寧に一山に集め、再び歩き出した。
So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it. Then she carefully gathered the apples together in a heap and walked on again.
次に見えてきたのは小さな家だった。そこでは大きな歯を持つおばあさんが外を見ていたので、娘は恐ろしくなって逃げ出そうとした。だが、おばあさんは娘を呼び止めた。「何を怖がっているんだい、かわいい子や」
The next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw an old woman looking out, with such large teeth, that she was terrified, and turned to run away. But the old woman called after her, ‘What are you afraid of, dear child?
「うちにいておくれ。家の仕事をきちんとしてくれたら、とても幸せにしてあげるよ」
Stay with me; if you will do the work of my house properly for me, I will make you very happy.
「ただし、わたしのベッドだけは正しく整えておくれよ。羽毛が舞い散るように、しっかり揺すってほしいんだ。そうすれば下界の人々は、雪が降っていると言うのさ。わたしはホレおばさんだからね」
You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.’
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