It does make me wonder what “love” meant in the 16th century. One minute, they’re playing with their cherished eleven sons, and the next minute, they don’t care one whit that their new wife has transmuted them into birds. The boys turned into eleven splendid white swans.ĭads were so fickle in the olden days. She said “boys you are, but birds you’ll be. She told lies about the boys, and blamed them for everything, until soon the king didn’t care for his sons at all. As soon as she could, she sent Lisa to live with a farmer. Their father married a queen who hated children. His wife is absent presumably because she died from exhaustion after delivering TWELVE CHILDREN, and even though the king “likes” kids, he’s not interested in raising them on his own (that’s the queen’s job), so he decides to find a new wife. We begin in a rather unusual place: a king who likes children! He likes them so much, in fact, that he has twelve of them, eleven boys and one daughter named Lisa. This is what happens to Danish children who don’t do their chores!
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