Sie wusste nicht, was das war, sie sann und sann, aber sie brachte es nicht heraus : sie schlug ihre Rätselbücher auf, aber es stand nicht darin : kurz, ihre Weisheit war zu Ende.
Da sie sich nicht zu helfen wusste, befahl sie ihrer Magd, in das Schlafgemach des Herrn zu schleichen, da sollte sie seine Träume behorchen, und dachte, er rede vielleicht im Schlaf und verrate das Rätsel.
www.grimmstories.comShe did not know what that was, she thought and thought, but she could not find out, she opened her riddle-books, but it was not in them -- in short, her wisdom was at an end.
As she did not know how to help herself, she ordered her maid to creep into the lord's sleeping-chamber, and listen to his dreams, and thought that he would perhaps speak in his sleep and discover the riddle.
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