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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Marsh King’s Daughter | |
| Was found by the King’s daughter | 100 |
| “Don’t get excited” | 101 |
| Tore her feather dress into a hundred pieces | 101 |
| It was he who pulled her down | 102 |
| The stork at first believed it to be the Princess turned a child again | 103 |
| Screamed passionately, and stretched out its arms and legs | 103 |
| There, just at the foot of the bed, was a great ugly toad | 104 |
| The Viking’s wife sat on the cross bench in the open banqueting hall | 105 |
| The serfs slept for the night in the warm ashes | 106 |
| All his limbs rigid and stretched out like a mummy | 107 |
| We bound fire under the wings of a swallow | 108 |
| He stood on one leg | 109 |
| She was to hold her ear to the lips of the dead | 109 |
| Came dripping with water into the lofty hall | 110 |
| Then the Viking’s wife could take her on her knees | 111 |
| “But he is still the handsomest of them all,” said the mother stork | 112 |
| Drove the knife into his side | 112 |
| Vent away wrathful and sad | 113 |
| “Who art thou?” | 114 |
| The horse galloped on | 114 |
| Rode through the forest | 115 |
| The sun went down at that moment | 116 |
| Sat there all through the long day | 117 |
| Looked with astonishment at her fine white hands | 117 |
| The Christian priest raised his cross on high | 118 |
| Lay a sleeping woman | 118 |
| Trembled and nestled up closer to her foster-mother | 119 |
| Stretched out her arms towards them | 120 |
| There stood two beautiful women, as like as two drops of dew | 121 |
| She saw two powerful ostriches running round in narrow circles | 122 |
| Placed the golden circlet about his neck | 123 |
| Asked him to fly to the beech forest | 123 |
| She looked towards the twinkling, sparkling stars | 124 |
| Fell on her knees | 125 |
| The Little Mermaid | |
| Ate out of their hands and allowed themselves to be stroked | 126 |
| The youngest planted hers in a circle to imitate the sun | 126 |
| A statue, representing a handsome youth, hewn out of pure white marble | 127 |
| They flew away in great alarm | 128 |
| All the vessels scudded past in great alarm | 128 |
| As often as the water lifted her up she peeped in through the transparent panes | 129 |
| She held his head above the water, and then let the waves carry them whither they pleased | 130 |
| It was not long before a young maiden approached the spot where he was lying | 131 |
| “You must not think about that,” said the old dame | 132 |
| Crossing her hands over her bosom she darted along | 133 |
| Within sat the sea witch, feeding a toad from her mouth | 134 |
| When the sun rose over the sea she awoke and felt a sharp pang | 135 |
| Everybody was enchanted, but most of all the Prince, who called her his little foundling | 136 |
