Christ Legends – Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Price in literature. Here are her amazing stories about Christ, Christ Legends. If you are not familiar with Selma Lagerlöf you might object to the idea of creating stories about Christ out of the historical context. However, Selma does this in an a way that ads to what we know about Christ. These stories are widespread here in Scandinavia. For example, they are often used for reading loud during Christmas and Easter holidays. Here is the beginning 0f the short story Robert Redbreast:
It happened at the time when our Lord created the world, when He not only made heaven and earth, but all the animals and the plants as well, at the same time giving them their names. There have been many histories concerning that time, and if we knew them all, we should have light upon everything in this world which we can not now comprehend. At that time it happened one day when our Lord sat in His Paradise and painted the little birds, that the colors in our Lord’s paint pot gave out, and the goldfinch would have been without color if our Lord had not wiped all His paint brushes on its feathers. It was then that the donkey got his long ears, because he could not remember the name that had been given him. No sooner had he taken a few steps over the meadows of Paradise than he forgot, and three times he came back to ask his name. At last our Lord grew somewhat impatient, took him by his two ears, and said: “Thy name Is ass, ass, ass ! ” And while He thus spake our Lord pulled both of his ears that the ass might hear better, and remember what was said to him. It was on the same day, also, that the bee was punished.
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Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf
