The Princess on Glass Hill

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Little Ears Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 932 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A farmer sends his sons to protect his field from a mysterious trespasser who keeps eating all of his grass. One by one his sons fail until the youngest, Alastair, conquers his fear and braves the terrible sounds coming from the field. And when he finally meets who has been eating all of the grass, young Alastair goes on an adventure he never could have imagined.

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1:18.1	Good evening, children. It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a man who had a farm which lay next to a beautiful meadow.
1:48.8	It was here that he had built a barn in which he stored his hay after the harvest.
1:55.7	But for the last three years, there had not been much hay at all.
2:05.5	Every year, on the eve of the summer solstice,
2:12.3	which gives us the longest day of the year and therefore the shortest night, the grass had disappeared. Something had eaten it up.
2:23.6	It was as if all the animals in the land, sheep, horses and cows alike,
2:27.6	had come to the meadow just to eat the farmer's grass.
2:32.2	The man grew tired of losing his crop.
2:36.7	He said to his sons, of which he had three, One of you must go and guard the field.
2:41.1	You will stay in the barn all night and keep watch.
2:44.9	We cannot go another year without it.
2:49.4	The eldest son, who was called William, said,
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