1 Now there was once a maiden whose name was Jorinda.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In JORINDA AND JORINDEL 2 Then the faithful maiden held her wedding with her sweetheart Roland, and grief came to an end and joy began.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In SWEETHEART ROLAND 3 But when Roland got home, he fell into the snares of another, who so fascinated him that he forgot the maiden.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In SWEETHEART ROLAND 4 He mounted the steps and entered the room where the maiden was sitting, with a golden goblet full of wine in front of her.
5 Then the maiden changed herself into a beautiful flower which stood in the midst of a briar hedge, and her sweetheart Roland into a fiddler.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In SWEETHEART ROLAND 6 Then he waited till her father came home, and told him that the unknown maiden, who had been at the feast, had hid herself in the pigeon-house.
7 His son married the beautiful maiden whom he had brought with him as a flower in his pocket, and whether they are still alive or not, is known to God.
8 He found it situated, however, on a glass mountain, and looking up from the foot he saw the enchanted maiden drive round her castle and then go inside.
9 When the faithful maiden heard of this, she grew so sad that she thought her heart would break, and she would not go thither, but the other girls came and took her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In SWEETHEART ROLAND 10 The maiden laughed, and said: 'He does not stand much on ceremony, but I have already seen by his golden hair that he was no gardener's boy,' and then she went and kissed him.
11 The maiden fetched the magic wand, and she took the dead girl's head and dropped three drops of blood on the ground, one in front of the bed, one in the kitchen, and one on the stairs.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In SWEETHEART ROLAND 12 And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 13 Then the son said: 'Now will I show her to you in her own form,' and wished that she might become a maiden, and she stood there looking so beautiful that no painter could have made her look more so.
14 It was in vain that the poor maiden said that it was only a silly boast of her father, for that she could do no such thing as spin straw into gold: the chamber door was locked, and she was left alone.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In RUMPELSTILTSKIN 15 When they came to the king's daughter, she had twelve suits of huntsmen's clothes made, all alike, and the eleven maidens had to put on the huntsmen's clothes, and she herself put on the twelfth suit.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN 16 The father said: 'If it be possible, your desire shall be fulfilled,' and he caused a search to be made in his whole kingdom, until eleven young maidens were found who exactly resembled his daughter in face, figure, and size.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN 17 Then he touched all the other birds with the flower, so that they all took their old forms again; and he took Jorinda home, where they were married, and lived happily together many years: and so did a good many other lads, whose maidens had been forced to sing in the old fairy's cages by themselves, much longer than they liked.
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