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«Hans my hedgehog» in Italian

Gian Porcospino

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✒ Author
📖 Pages5
⏰ Reading time 20 minutes
💡 Originally published1815
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Adventure, Parable

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C'era una volta un ricco contadino che non aveva figli. Spesso, quando si recava in città con gli altri contadini, questi lo canzonavano e gli domandavano perché‚ non avesse figli. Un giorno si arrabbiò e quando arrivò a casa disse: "Voglio avere un figlio, fosse anche un porcospino." Ed ecco, sua moglie mise al mondo un bambino, mezzo porcospino e mezzo uomo, e quando lo vide inorridì e disse: "Vedi, ci hai gettato un maleficio!" Disse l'uomo: "Che cosa ci vuoi fare? Dobbiamo battezzarlo lo stesso, ma non possiamo prendere un compare." La donna rispose: "E non possiamo chiamarlo che Gian Porcospino." Dopo il battesimo, il parroco disse: "Con questi aculei non può entrare in un letto normale." Così sistemarono un po' di paglia dietro la stufa e ci misero Gian Porcospino. Egli non poteva neanche essere allattato dalla madre, perché‚ l'avrebbe punta con quegli aculei. Così se ne stette dietro la stufa per otto anni, e suo padre non ne poteva più e si augurava solo che morisse; ma egli non morì e se ne stava là disteso. Ora avvenne che ci fu un mercato in città, e il contadino volle andarci, perciò domandò alla moglie che cosa dovesse portarle. "Un po' di carne e qualche panino, quel che occorre in casa," disse lei. Poi chiese alla serva, che voleva un paio di pantofole e delle calze con lo sprone. Infine chiese: "E tu, Gian Porcospino, cosa vuoi?" - "Babbino," disse questi, "portami una cornamusa." Quando il contadino tornò a casa, diede alla moglie ciò che aveva comprato, carne e panini; poi diede alla serva le pantofole e le calze con lo sprone, infine andò dietro la stufa e diede la cornamusa a Gian Porcospino. E quando questi ebbe la cornamusa, disse: "Babbino, andate alla fucina e fatemi ferrare il mio gallo, così partirò e non tornerò mai più." Il padre era felice di potersene liberare; gli fece ferrare il gallo e, quando fu pronto, Gian Porcospino gli salì in groppa, portando con s‚ anche asini e porci che voleva custodire nel bosco. Nel bosco il gallo dovette volare con lui su un albero alto, ed egli rimase lassù a custodire asini e porci. Egli rimase molti anni lassù mentre il suo branco si ingrossava e suo padre non sapeva più nulla di lui. Sull'albero, egli suonava la sua cornamusa, e la musica era bellissima. Un giorno un re che si era perduto passò di là e udì la musica; se ne meravigliò e mandò un suo servo a vedere da dove venisse. Quello si guardò attorno ma vide soltanto un animaletto seduto in cima a un albero; sembrava un gallo, con un porcospino in groppa che suonava. Allora il re ordinò al servo di domandargli perché‚ se ne stesse là seduto, e se sapesse dove passava la strada per il suo regno. Allora Gian Porcospino scese dall'albero e disse che gli avrebbe indicato il cammino se il re gli prometteva per iscritto la prima cosa che a corte gli fosse venuta incontro al suo arrivo. Il re pensò: "Puoi farlo benissimo, tanto Gian Porcospino non capisce nulla e tu puoi scrivere quello che vuoi." Così prese penna e inchiostro e scrisse qualcosa e, quando ebbe finito, Gian Porcospino gli indicò la strada ed egli arrivò felicemente a casa. Ma sua figlia, vedendolo da lontano, piena di gioia gli corse incontro e lo baciò. Egli pensò a Gian Porcospino e le raccontò quel che gli era successo: che aveva dovuto promettere per iscritto a uno strano animale ciò che a casa gli fosse venuto incontro per primo; l'animale stava in groppa a un galletto e suonava molto bene; ma egli aveva scritto che non gli avrebbe dato nulla perché‚, tanto, Gian Porcospino non sapeva leggere. La principessa ne fu felice e disse che era ben fatto, perché‚ non ci sarebbe andata in nessun caso.
There was once a countryman who had money and land in plenty, but how rich soever he was, one thing was still wanting in his happiness he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, "I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog." Then his wife had a child, that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body, and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, "See, there thou hast brought ill-luck on us." Then said the man, "What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him." The woman said, "And we cannot call him anything else but Hans-my-Hedgehog." When he was christened, the parson said, "He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes." So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans-my-Hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, "If he would but die!" He did not die, however, but remained lying there. Now it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. "A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house," said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, "And what wilt thou have, Hans my Hedgehog?" - "Dear father," he said, "do bring me bagpipes." When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her; meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks; and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans-my-Hedgehog the bagpipes. And when Hans-my-Hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, "Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again." On this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans-my-Hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. While he was sitting in the tree, however, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful. Once a King came travelling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the King told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans-my-Hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the King would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the King thought, "I can easily do that, Hans-my-Hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like." So the King took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans-my-Hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans-my-Hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the Hedgehog.
Ma Gian Porcospino custodiva gli asini e i porci, era sempre allegro e sedeva sull'albero a suonare la cornamusa. Ora avvenne che un altro re arrivò in carrozza con i suoi servi e alfieri; si era perduto e non sapeva tornare a casa, poiché‚ il bosco era tanto grande. Udì subito la bella musica da lontano e disse al suo alfiere di andare a vedere cos'era e di dove veniva la musica. Questi andò sotto l'albero e vide il gallo con Gian Porcospino in groppa. Gli domandò che cosa stesse facendo lassù. "Custodisco asini e maiali; ma voi, cosa volete?" L'alfiere rispose che si erano persi e che non potevano più tornare nel loro regno, e s'egli voleva indicare loro il cammino. Allora Gian Porcospino scese dall'albero con il gallo e disse al vecchio re che gli avrebbe indicato la strada se gli avesse concesso la prima cosa che gli fosse venuta incontro davanti al suo castello. Il re rispose di sì e firmò la promessa a Gian Porcospino. Allora questi lo precedette in groppa al suo gallo, gli mostrò la strada, e il re fece ritorno felicemente nel suo regno. Quando giunse a corte, la gioia fu grande. Il re aveva un'unica figlia, molto bella; lei gli venne incontro, gli saltò al collo, lo baciò, felice che il vecchio padre fosse tornato. Gli chiese dove fosse stato così a lungo in giro per il mondo, ed egli le raccontò di essersi perso e che forse non avrebbe più fatto ritorno; ma mentre attraversava un gran bosco, un essere mezzo porcospino e mezzo uomo, che stava in cima a un albero in groppa a un gallo, e suonava molto bene, lo aveva aiutato e gli aveva mostrato il cammino; in cambio però egli aveva dovuto promettergli la prima cosa che gli fosse venuta incontro a corte, e questa era lei, e ora egli era tanto afflitto. Ma lei gli promise che, all'arrivo di Gian Porcospino, lo avrebbe seguito volentieri per amore del suo vecchio padre.
Hans-my-Hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another King came journeying by with his attendants and runners, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans-my-Hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was about up there? "I am keeping my asses and my pigs; but what is your desire?" The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans-my-Hedgehog got down the tree with the cock, and told the aged King that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The King said, "Yes," and wrote a promise to Hans-my-Hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the King reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful; she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was travelling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.
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