The Legend of the Christmas Rose & Other Christmas Stories
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Table of Contents:
The Holy Night
The Christmas Guest
The Flight Into Egypt
The Legend of the Christmas Rose
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914.
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The Legend of the Christmas Rose & Other Christmas Stories - Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
The Legend of the Christmas Rose & Other Christmas Stories
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Table of Contents
The Holy Night
The Christmas Guest
The Flight Into Egypt
The Legend of the Christmas Rose
The Holy Night
(Selma Lagerlöf)
Table of Contents
There was a man who went out in the dark night to borrow live coals to kindle a fire. He went from hut to hut and knocked. Dear friends, help me!
said he. My wife has just given birth to a child, and I must make a fire to warm her and the little one.
But it was way in the night, and all the people were asleep.
No one replied.
The man walked and walked. At last, he saw the gleam of a fire a long way off. Then he went in that direction and saw that the fire was burning in the open. Many sheep were sleeping around the fire, and an old shepherd sat and watched over the flock.
When the man who wanted to borrow fire came up to the sheep, he saw that three big dogs lay asleep at the shepherd's feet. All three awoke when the man approached and opened their great jaws, as though they wanted to bark; but not a sound was heard. The man noticed that the hair on their backs stood up and that their sharp, white teeth glistened in the firelight. They dashed toward him.
He felt that one of them bit at his leg and one at this hand and that one clung to this throat. But their jaws and teeth wouldn't obey them, and the man didn't feel a thing.
Now the man wished to go farther, to get what he needed. But the sheep lay back to back, so close to one another that he couldn't pass them. Then the man stepped upon their backs and walked over them and up to the fire.
And not one of the animals awoke or moved.
When the man had almost reached the fire, the shepherd looked up. He was a surly old man, who was unfriendly and harsh toward human beings. And when he saw the strange man coming, he seized the long, spiked staff, which he always held in his hand when he tended his flock, and threw it at him. The staff came right toward the man, but, before it reached him, it turned off to one side and whizzed past him, far out in the meadow.
Now the man came up to the shepherd and said to him: Good man, help me! Lend me a little fire! My wife has just given birth to a child, and I must make a fire to warm her and the little one.
The shepherd would rather have said no, but when he pondered that the dogs couldn't hurt the man, and the sheep had not run from him, and that the staff had not wished to strike him, he was a little afraid, and dared not deny the man that which he asked. Take as much as you need!
he said to the man.
But then the fire was nearly burnt out. There were no logs or branches left, only a big heap of live coals, and the stranger had neither spade nor shovel wherein he could carry the red-hot coals.
When the shepherd saw this, he said again: