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In a big city there lived a boy and a girl who loved each other very much, like brother and sister. The boy's name was Kai, and the girl's name was Gerda. Their parents, who lived under the very roof of the house, each had a large wooden box in which rose bushes grew. Kai and Gerda visited each other and played among the roses.
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They came to each other in winter, and the old grandmother told them about the queen of white snowflakes, often flying through the city streets at night and covering the windows of houses with frosty patterns. Gerda was afraid that the Snow Queen might enter their house, but Kai promised: “I will put her on a warm stove, so she will melt.”
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Getting ready to sleep, Kai looked out the window and saw “a woman wrapped in the finest white tulle, woven, it seemed, from millions of snow stars.” She beckoned Kai with her hand, but he got scared and moved away from the window.
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Gerda instantly noticed the changes that had occurred in her friend: the roses that he had previously loved, he now began to call disgusting...
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One day Kai went with other boys to ride in the square. Suddenly, a large white sleigh appeared on the square, to which Kai tied his sleigh. Finally, the woman sitting in the sleigh looked back, and the boy recognized her as the Snow Queen.
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She put the boy in her sleigh, kissed him on the forehead, and Kai forgot all his relatives and Gerda. Kai decided that he had never seen anyone smarter and more beautiful than this woman. The Snow Queen, picking up the boy, soared into the black sky.
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The girl put on her new red shoes and went to the river to ask about Kai. She decided to give her shoes to the river, if only it would return her friend.
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The old woman treated Gerda to cherries and combed her hair with a golden comb. The longer she combed her guest’s curls, the more she forgot Kai.
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Gerda sank to the ground and began to cry, and her tears fell exactly on the place where the rose bush had once been. As soon as the tears moistened the earth, the rose bush instantly grew as blooming as before. Gerda remembered Kai and the need to find him.
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Gerda sat down to rest. A large raven was jumping in the snow next to her. Suddenly the bird greeted the girl in human language
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Raven brought Gerda to the palace to his bride, who found Gerda's story very touching. She told Gerda to take the lamp and follow her forward.
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The next day they dressed Gerda in beautiful clothes - shoes, a muff, a wonderful dress, put her in a carriage made of pure gold and wished her a happy journey.
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“She will play with me,” said the little robber. - She will give me her muff, her pretty dress and will sleep with me in my bed.
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When the little robber fell asleep, the pigeons told Gerda that they had seen Kai sitting in the Snow Queen's sleigh and that they were probably heading to Lapland.
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The little robber took pity on the girl, helped her escape and even released the reindeer in exchange for taking Gerda to the Snow Queen's palace. The reindeer set off at full speed towards the North Pole, and very soon they found themselves in Lapland.
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The Lapland woman said that they needed to get to Finland, and wrote a message on dried cod addressed to a Finnish woman living in those places. Olen and Gerda quickly found the Finnish woman’s home.
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...The deer did not dare to stop until it reached a bush with red berries. Then he lowered the girl, kissed her on the lips, and large, shiny tears rolled down his cheeks. Then he shot back like an arrow. The poor girl was left alone in the bitter cold, without shoes, without mittens.
Travel almost the entire Earth in search of your best friend? For the heroine of a fairy tale, this is not at all difficult. Brave and courageous Gerda will overcome any challenge to save a loved one. And what obstacles can we talk about if a sincere belief in good lives in the heart.
History of creation
In 1844, the collection “New Fairy Tales. Volume one." The book includes a story about the adventures of a girl named Gerda, who was desperately searching for her missing friend.
Scientists claim that “The Snow Queen” is the writer’s longest fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen himself called the work “the fairy tale of my life.” There is some basis for such a statement. Most of the characters in this fascinating story are not fictional - these are real people who accompanied Andersen on his life's journey.
The prototype of the brave Gerda was a girl named Lisbeth. The future heroine of the fairy tale lived not far from little Hans and often came to visit. Over time, the children became so friendly that they began to call each other “sister” and “brother.” Lisbeta is the first listener to Andersen’s still uncertain, but already interesting stories.
There is a theory that in the confrontation between Gerda and the Danish writer he reflected the struggle between religion and science. This idea did not take root in the Soviet Union. It’s not surprising, since the fairy tale reached the USSR in a stripped-down version. Mandatory censorship, through which foreign works passed, erased religious motifs from the fairy tale - in the original version, memories of .
Biography
Gerda was born into a poor family. Despite the difficult financial situation, the parents and grandmother tried to give the child a happy childhood. The family lives under the very roof of an apartment building. The young heroine has an attractive appearance:
“The hair curled and the curls surrounded the girl’s fresh, round, rose-like face with a golden glow.”
Mom and dad built a flower garden for Gerda, which the girl looked after together with the neighbor boy Kai. The guys had been friends since childhood and spent a lot of time together.
The relationship changed when Kai became hostage to the fragments of a magic mirror, distorting the perception of the world. Having hit the boy in the eye and heart, the fragments turned Kai against Gerda.
The girl's best friend goes missing, and the adults decide that the boy is dead. Only Gerda does not accept this truth and, with the onset of spring, goes on a search. The first person the girl turns to is the local river. Gerda offers the elements an exchange: the river returns Kaya to her, and the heroine gives away the only thing of value - new red shoes. The river does not help the girl, but carries her to the house of the old witch.
Naive Gerda allows herself to be bewitched and blithely lives in the old woman’s house through the end of spring and all summer. Chance reminds the girl of the purpose of her journey. After consulting with local flowers and finding out that Kai is not buried in the ground, Gerda returns to the search.
The road leads a brave girl to a beautiful castle. Questions from the talking raven confirm the guess - Kai lives in the palace and is quite happy with the local princess. The girl persuades the raven to take her inside. Alas, the princess's groom turns out to be another boy.
Good rulers listen to the sad story and present the girl with warm clothes and a golden carriage. The gifts could not have come at a better time. Gerda again sets out on a difficult journey. In the nearby forest, an expensive carriage is attacked by bandits.
Gerda is saved from death by a little robber who decides to take the girl into her collection of curiosities. At night, when the robber falls asleep, the white doves tell the girl where to look for Kai. Delighted Gerda shares what she has learned with the jailer. Despite the surroundings, the heart of the young robber has not yet hardened. The thief lets Gerda go, giving her a reindeer to accompany her.
So, on the back of a mighty animal, the heroine gets to Lapland. The duo makes their first stop at the house of an old Laplander. The woman, having learned the fate of the deer and Gerda, gives the heroes a strange message on the road, written on dried cod. The old woman asks to convey a message to a Finnish friend.
Having reached Finnmark, Gerda finds the old woman's home. While the heroes are warming up after a long journey, the Finnish woman carefully examines the incomprehensible writings. The reindeer, who has developed a liking for his companion during the trip, begs his new acquaintance to help Gerda. But the Finnish woman, seeing the girl’s character traits, has a different opinion on this matter:
“Don’t you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It’s not up to us to borrow her power! The strength is in her sweet, innocent childish heart. If she herself cannot penetrate the palace of the Snow Queen and remove the fragments from Kai’s heart, then we will certainly not help her!”
Having reached the entrance to the Snow Queen's garden, Gerda is left alone - a reindeer is waiting for her at the entrance. Prayers help the girl get to the castle. The angels who came to the rescue drive the Snow Queen's guards away from the heroine and do not allow them to harm Gerda.
The house of the evil mistress of the snow fascinates the girl, although during the journey the castles ceased to amaze Gerda. Seeing Kai, the heroine throws herself on her friend’s chest. Warm tears rolling from the girl’s eyes melt the ice in the boy’s heart, and the mention of Christ in his favorite psalm makes Kai himself cry. This is how the fragments of the cursed mirror came out of the young man’s body.
The happy heroes set off on their way back and, having reached their home, realize that they have matured a lot during the journey. Only their hearts remained as kind and pure.
Film adaptations
The first cartoon about the adventures of a brave girl was filmed in the USSR in 1957. The cartoon “The Snow Queen” has received international awards and has been translated into six foreign languages. The actress became the voice of Gerda.
In 1967, the Lenfilm film studio released the fairy tale film The Snow Queen. In addition to living people, the film features dolls and cartoon elements. The role of Gerda was played by.
The premiere of the New Year's musical of the same name took place on December 31, 2003. Performed the role of Gerda. In addition to the original plot, the musical film also contains other Andersen stories.
Inspired by the fairy tale of the Danish writer, Osamu Dezaki created an anime dedicated to the adventures of a brave girl. The cartoon hardly deviates from the original source. The image of Gerda was created by Akio Sugino, and the voice was given by Ayako Kawasumi.
In 2012, a new animated film “The Snow Queen” was released. Later, the fairy tale was continued - “The Snow Queen 2: Refreeze” (2015) and “The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice”. In the first and second parts, Gerda was voiced by a singer (Anna Shurochkina), in the third - by Natalia Bystrova.
- The name "Gerda" comes from Scandinavia, the meaning of the name is the protector of people.
- A polar bear named Gerda lives in the Novosibirsk Zoo. In August, the animal was suffering from the heat, and the servants brought real snow into the enclosure. A video of Gerda enjoying the snow spread all over the world.
- Poet Stefania Danilova dedicated a poem to Gerda in which the heroine enters the halls of winter. The work ends unexpectedly: Gerda confesses her love not to Kai, but to the Snow Queen.
GERDA
GERDA (Danish Gerda) is the heroine of H. C. Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen” (1843). G. is a normal, “natural” girl in captivity of myth, unlike her named brother Kai, who defeated evil forces. True, Kai is a victim of the machinations of a troll, with whom it would seem impossible to fight. Both heroes, each in their own way, fell into myth. Perhaps this was the main machinations of the troll, who broke the mirror, which, as you know, inevitably brings misfortune, and since it was also an evil, crooked mirror, the world in which the heroes lived staggered, distorted and collapsed. Two tiny fragments hit Kai’s eye and heart, and he became the prey of the Snow Queen, “fell out of reality,” forgetting everything in the world. In this story, it was the boy, Kai, who turned out to be the more accessible object of the experiment of evil forces. The heroine had to become a girl who decided to go to the kingdom of the Snow Queen herself. We learn that while G. was looking for Kai, some heroes grew up (the Little Robber), others died (the forest raven), and the heroes themselves, Kai and G., became adults during this time. G. is a very important heroine in Andersen’s world: she proves the possibility of fighting evil - mystical, omnipotent, ugly. At the same time, G. does not act alone: in a semi-fairy-tale world, where completely everyday, even realistic heroes (like a Laplander or a Finnish woman) coexist with talking crows and deer, everyone is drawn to her, there is not a single character who would not try to help her. And it’s not just about kindness triumphing despite the troll’s machinations. G. has the gift of attracting all that is good to himself and repelling all that is bad.
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Synonyms:See what "GERDA" is in other dictionaries:
Gerda is a German name derived from Gertrude. It gained popularity in Russian after the publication of Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen”. Gerda Weissensteiner is an Italian luger. Gerda Wegener is a Danish artist. Gerda... ...Wikipedia
According to Scandinavian mythology: a beauty who became the wife of the god Frey and the goddess of beauty. Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language. Chudinov A.N., 1910. GERDA According to Scandinavian mythology: a giant beauty who became the wife of Frey and... ... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language
Noun, number of synonyms: 2 asteroid (579) goddess (346) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Synonym dictionary
Gerda- mit. in Scandinavian mythology: goddess on ubabinata wife on Frejar ... Macedonian dictionary
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Books
- Gerda. The story of one mongrel, Vladimir Valerievich Zemsha. The story focuses on an ordinary mongrel named Gerda. The reader gets the opportunity to look at the world around him and, perhaps, himself, through a dog's eyes. By the will of man...
The fairy tale by H.H. Andersen is dedicated to Jenny Lind, a very famous opera actress in the 18th century. She had phenomenal range. She was applauded by Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna. Her voice was admired, and her performances were sold out. Andersen was captivated to the depths of his soul by her beautiful voice. Lindh and the writer met in Copenhagen. Literally at first sight, he fell in love with the singer. Whether this feeling was mutual is unknown. But she really appreciated his writing talent. Andersen couldn’t speak beautifully about his love, so he decided to write about it and confess his feelings. Having sent a letter with Lind's confession, he did not wait for a response. This is how the famous fairy tale was born, telling about the touching love that Gerda and Kai felt for each other. Prototypes of heroes in a fairy tale Two years later, Lind and Andersen met. The actress invited Andersen to become her brother. He agreed (since it was better than being a nobody), thinking that Gerda and Kai were also like brother and sister. Perhaps in search of a real feeling, Andersen spent a lot of time traveling, trying to escape from the kingdom of the Snow Queen, which was Copenhagen for him. In life, everything is not like in a fairy tale. The image of Kai and Gerda, invented by Andersen and personifying him and Lind, was just as pure. In his life, Kai was never able to make Gerda fall in love with him and escape from the kingdom of the Snow Queen. Brief analysis of the fairy tale G. H. Andersen is the first Danish writer whose works were included in world literature. The most famous fairy tales are “The Little Mermaid” and “The Snow Queen”. They are familiar to almost all of us. The fairy tale “The Snow Queen” tells about good and evil, love and oblivion. It also talks about devotion and betrayal. The image of the Snow Queen in the fairy tale was taken for a reason. Before his death, Andersen's father told him that the Ice Maiden had come for him. In his fairy tale, the writer personified the Snow Queen precisely with the Ice Maiden, who took his dying father with her. At first glance, the tale is simple and does not contain any deep meaning. Delving deeper into the process of analysis, you understand that the plot raises some of the most important aspects of life - love, devotion, determination, kindness, the fight against evil, religious motives. The story of Kai and Gerda This is a story of touching friendship and love between two fairy-tale characters from Andersen's fairy tale. Gerda and Kai had known each other since childhood and spent a lot of time together. In the fairy tale, it is Gerda who has to prove the strength of friendship, who went on a long and difficult journey after the boy who became a prisoner of the Snow Queen herself. Having charmed Kai with a piece of ice, she turned him into a callous, spoiled and arrogant boy. At the same time, Kai was not aware of his changes. Having managed to go through many difficulties, Gerda managed to find Kai and melt his icy heart. Kindness and faith in her friend’s salvation gave the girl strength and confidence. The fairy tale teaches you to be faithful to your feelings, not to leave a loved one in trouble, to be kind and, despite difficulties, to strive to achieve your goal. Characteristics of Kai and Gerda Andersen's fairy tale describes to us the kind, attentive and sympathetic Kai. But after challenging the Snow Queen herself, he turns into a rude and angry boy, capable of offending anyone, even Gerda and his grandmother, whose fairy tales he loved to listen to. One of Kai's pranks ended with him being captured by the Snow Queen. In the palace of the evil queen, he became a boy with an icy heart. Kai kept trying to make the word “eternity” out of ice floes, but he couldn’t. Then she promised to give him skates and the whole world. Kai's desire to comprehend eternity indicates his lack of understanding that this cannot be done without true feelings, without love, having only a cold mind...
We will be very glad to meet our neighbors, friends of the same age and other townspeople! =)
Gerda Johansen and Kai Larsen are ordinary Copenhagen teenagers, foster brother and sister. Scions of worthy but impoverished families.
About family
There lived a man named Hans Johansen, a self-taught artist and the son of a bookseller. His close friend's name was Søren Larsen, he was a technician and spent several years in England. Søren and Hans invented a new way of printing color engravings. We collected loans, took part in the project and became the owners of the small printing house Larsen and Johansen. They published luxurious gift books. Especially children's ones! But I must say, the young people were a little... idealistic. Patents were not filed properly. Soon their competitors mastered their technology and strangled them, bankrupting them. This happened fifteen years ago. Books “from Larsen and Johansen” are now selling at three times their old price, and collectors are hunting for books. And the children of publishers huddle in attics...
Trouble does not come alone - Christina, the young wife of Hans Johansen, died in childbirth. Little Gerda was raised by Søren's wife, Camilla Larsen, who gave birth to a boy named Kai a little earlier. The misfortune only strengthened the friendship between the two houses. They also rent housing next door! The parents of Gerda and Kai had to work together with the same competitors that ruined them - for fifteen years they have been delivering books to the bearish corners of dear Denmark, spinning like a squirrel in a wheel and rarely being at home...
To this day, “remnants of imperial greatness” are preserved in the furnishings of our homes. Parents take care of old things and samples of their luxury publications. They want to save money and open the business again. They dream of bringing their children into the public eye. They save and save, saving a penny, feeling like the last poor people! But ambition, ambition...
Kaya's mother is a companion to the old countess and lives in her country estate. The countess has a “charitable cause”: she keeps with her twenty-eight dowry virgins of Balzac’s age and strives with all her might to “arrange their happiness.” True, the old woman experiences lapses in memory, and she tries to marry Kai’s mother for company. Camilla contradicts, a scandal arises, the “ungrateful” one rolls into the attic to Kai in tears. But mom and the countess can no longer live without each other, everything returns to normal. The old woman is pathologically stingy and has a difficult character, but wants to bequeath part of the estate to her companion if she “proves her gratitude.”
Gerda and Kai are left with Magda Johansen, Gerda's grandmother. Now Kai considers her his own grandmother. Here our dear grandmother told about herself: http://community.livejournal.com/andersen_tales/29984.html
The children live in neighboring attics. Between their humble homes is a beautiful little rose garden!
Of course, the parents are virtual characters; only Gerda appears at the game ( mirish
), grandmother ( glornaith
) and Kai (me).
About Gerda
She just turned 13. She looks like an ordinary city girl: well-educated (her grandmother tried her best and taught her politeness), neat, modest, and beautiful. Moderately cheerful, moderately quiet, moderately pious. In short, the bride will grow up to be an exemplary one! The only problem is with the dowry. And I read a lot of books.
Gerda is a kind and sympathetic girl, but she knows how to insist on her own if she is sure that she is doing well. People are drawn to her...
Gerda's friends know her excessive flight of imagination, which is why not everyone can play with her: it is difficult to keep up. Therefore, Gerda talks and plays more and more with Kai, and with the girls - to the extent that.
He loves Kai like a brother. He considers him the smartest boy on Earth and even in all of Copenhagen. Lately, Gerda doesn’t even know who is smarter, grandma or Kai. Although the grandmother’s authority, of course, is indisputable.
“My grandmother and I have a stupid last name,” Gerda laments. – Larsen is cooler.
Oh, what a juicy street vocabulary: “cooler, stupid”... It’s so good that grandma didn’t hear this - Gerda would have been given a thrashing!
As you can see, Gerda is a multifaceted nature.
About Kai
A moderately original urban teenager of fourteen years old, of uncertain social status: dressed poorly, but with pretension. However, the guy is pleasant, friendly, not boring, with a variety of hobbies. I studied at school for several years while I had enough money. Seems to fancy himself a child prodigy. She dreams of going to university in the future!
He runs around libraries and reads a lot. “A lot, but all nonsense,” the neighbor laughed good-naturedly. There was a case when Kai was caught with a volume of Voltaire in his hands.
They got the boy a job in a printing house - he worked for about three weeks, then something didn’t work out with the owner...
He loves Gerda like a sister. They walk together and have adventures! Gerda and Kai seem to balance each other out. Gerda with a boy - Common Sense.
Kai and Gerda also play tricky games. Sometimes you don’t even know whether it’s a prank or an innocent game, and you just wave your hand so as not to mess with their grandmother again: she knows better what the children can do.
Rumor has it that Kai has been getting some cockroaches lately... And there was such a good boy with beady eyes! Another good boy Kai knows how to spit poison.
