Untold Podcast 2 - Little Daylight

---

Story: Little Daylight by George MacDonald
Genre: Fairytale, Romance, Classic
Rating: G
Song: Fly by Paeter Frandsen

---

Despite the protection of seven good fairies, the newborn Princess Daylight is cursed by an evil swamp-fairy to never see the sunrise. There is little hope that her curse will ever be broken.

---

No house of any pretension to be called a palace is in the least worthy of the name, except it has a wood near it--very near it-- and the nearer the better. Not all round it--I don't mean that, for a palace ought to be open to the sun and wind, and stand high and brave, with weathercocks glittering and flags flying; but on one side of every palace there must be a wood. And there was a very grand wood indeed beside the palace of the king who was going to be Daylight's father; such a grand wood, that nobody yet had ever got to the other end of it. Near the house it was kept very trim and nice, and it was free of brushwood for a long way in; but by degrees it got wild, and it grew wilder, and wilder, and wilder, until some said wild beasts at last did what they liked in it. The king and his courtiers often hunted, however, and this kept the wild beasts far away from the palace.

One glorious summer morning, when the wind and sun were out together, when the vanes were flashing and the flags frolicking against the blue sky, little Daylight made her appearance from somewhere-- nobody could tell where--a beautiful baby, with such bright eyes that she might have come from the sun, only by and by she showed such lively ways that she might equally well have come out of the wind. There was great jubilation in the palace, for this was the first baby the queen had had, and there is as much happiness over a new baby in a palace as in a cottage.

But there is one disadvantage of living near a wood: you do not know quite who your neighbours may be.

untold_podcast_-_little_daylight.mp3
File Size:	51332 kb
File Type:	mp3

Download File

---

(Right Click to Save)

Credits:
"Little Daylight" by George MacDonald
(Originally published in At the Back of the North Wind, 1871)

"Fly" by Paeter Frandsen , Spirit Blade Productions
(Appearing in Spirit Blade: Special Edition, used with permission)

Sound Effect Attribution: henderda, Dynamicell, ERH, Corsica_S , HerbertBoland, fogma, RHumphries