She lived in the same village Masha. |
She sat under the window with a birch spindle, spun white lenok and said:
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- When Spring comes, when the tallitsa hits and the snow rolls down from the mountains, and water spills over the meadows, then I will bake sandpipers and larks and with my girlfriends I will go to meet Spring, to visit the village to call and call.
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Masha is waiting for a warm, kind spring, but that one cannot be seen, not heard. |
Winter does not go away, everything is forged by Frosts; |
she bored everyone, cold, icy, her hands and feet shivered, she let in a cold-chill. |
What to do here? |
Trouble!
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Masha decided to go look for Spring. |
Packed up and left.
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She came to the field, sat down on a hillock and called the Sun:
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Sunshine, Sunshine
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red bucket,
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Look over the mountain
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Look out until springtime!
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The sun came out from behind the mountain, Masha asked:
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- Have you seen, Sunshine, the red Spring, have you met your sister?
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Sun says:
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- I did not meet Spring, but I saw the old Winter. |
I saw how she, fierce, left Spring, ran away from the red one, carried cold in a bag, the cold shook the ground. |
She stumbled and rolled downhill. |
Yes, she has settled down in your area, she does not want to leave. |
And Spring doesn't know about that. |
Follow me, red maiden, when you see the whole green forest in front of you, look for Spring there. |
Invite her to your area.
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Masha went to look for Spring. |
Where the sun rolls across the blue sky, there it goes. |
She walked for a long time.
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Suddenly a green forest appeared before her. |
Masha walked through the forest, completely lost. |
Forest mosquitoes bit her shoulders, knots-hooks pushed through her sides, nightingale ears sang, raindrops moistened her head. |
As soon as Masha sat down on a stump to rest, as she sees - a white swan flies, noticing, silver wings from below, gilded on top. |
It flies and spreads fluff and feathers on the ground for any potion.
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That swan was Spring. |
Spring releases silk grass across the meadows, spreads pearl dew, merges small streams into fast rivers. |
Here Masha Vesna began to call, call, tell:
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- Oh, Spring-Spring, kind mother! |
You go to our lands, drive away the fierce Winter. |
Old Winter does not leave, everything is forged by Frosts, cold-cold lets in.
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Heard Vesna Mashin's voice. |
I took the golden keys and went to close the fierce winter.
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But Winter does not go away, Frost forges and sends them ahead of Spring to put together barriers, to cover snowdrifts. |
And Spring flies, where it waves its silver wing - there it will sweep away the barrier, it will wave another - and the snowdrifts melt. |
Frosts are fleeing from Spring.
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Winter got angry, sends Snowstorm and Blizzard to whip Spring's eyes. |
And Spring waved its golden wing, and then the Sun peeked out, warmed. |
A blizzard with a blizzard from the heat and the light of water powder came out.
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Old Winter got exhausted, ran far, far behind the high mountains, hid in ice holes. |
There, Spring locked her with a key.
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So Spring overcame Winter!
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Masha returned to her native village. |
And there already the young Queen Spring visited. |
Brought a year warm, grain-bearing. |