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Available now · Oct 30, 2026
Karen puts on a pair of red shoes that will not let her stop. Andersen’s fairy tale follows her from the church door to the executioner’s house, and beyond the axe.
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English translation by John Irons (2014), for the Hans Christian Andersen Centre at the University of Southern Denmark. Read the source edition ↗
Translation licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. John Irons’s translation is not public domain. © 2026 Victoria Unikel — narration and video production; translation credited separately.