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In a poor bug-eaten house with a thatched roof
In a snowy, secret winter night
Sat a pale woman with dreamy eyes
A spindle between her fingers and hemp on her distaff
 
Like two rosebuds next to the old rose stem
play two lively children next to her
 
There is no guest to liven up the mood
Only trouble and sadness visit her
Yet when the starry night comes down
The children pull on her skirt begging her
 
Our hearts keep returning to the shores of the Saint Anna lake
Please mother tell us about it
 
The eyes of the poor woman gaze off into the night,
Her spinning wheel spins and her tale glides
On the top of tall mountains lined with white cudweed
There lived two envious brothers hidden in the safety of their sad castle
 
A foreign lord was travelling there
His fine gold coach was pulled by six fine steeds
 
He visited one of the brothers
Who had his eyes set on the carriage
He promised the man seven villages, but the man didn't want to sell it
So he said: "bring out another barrel of wine and broach it"
 
And let's play with dice and let them decide
And thus he won the golden carriage from the man
 
In the morning sunlight he drove to his brother's palace
Who said enviously:
"I shall show you (my wealth) tomorrow
When my shining carriage wakes you from your sweet dream
 
He embellished it with expensive gemstones
And put twelve virgin girls in front of the carriage
 
The girls tried to pull it as hard as they could
But the carriage wouldn't move no matter what
The whip strikes a girl named Anna
Not once, not twice, who knows how many times
 
She bore it for as long as she could, as a good and meek person would
But then she opened her mouth at last and said these words in agony
 
"I wish this ground would swallow us up here as I speak"
And by then a flame starts to burn in her eyes
And she curses even the person who gave birth to her
Lo and behold the mountain opened up and the castle colapsed
 
And it covered up all people and treasure and the house
And in its place a shiny lake appeared
 
The emerald water makes a silver line
where twelve swans are swimming ashore
All twelve of them turn into a beautiful girl
Only Anna remains praying until her death
 
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