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(1880) [MARC] Author: Richard Gustafsson Translator: Albert Alberg
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The King who could not Sleep. 97

the sun. When the moonlight bespangled them, they
appeared as a show of a thousand silver lamps.

The court of King Garm was far-famed for its
splendour. Great throngs of courtiers appeared
there in apparel of golden tissue, and in the halls
reclined a thousand long-bearded warriors clad in
harness of steel, for Garm was a warlike king, and
frequently went abroad to invade and to conquer.

Garm possessed everything that a man could wish
of wealth and grandeur. He had absolute command
over the lives and possessions of his subjects. Any
moment he: chose he could give fétes in his palace,
and parks and gardens. He could command the
troubadours to sing his praise, and call beauteous
dancing-girls to chase away the clouds from his brow.
But notwithstanding all this Garm was not happy,
because for a long time a great distress had tormented
him. You may easily picture to yourselves how
dreadful it was, for, poor king, he could not sleep.
When night spread her veil of shadow over the castle,
and the courtiers fell asleep, and the warriors snored,
Garm alone was awake, sighing or raging, because
sleep was driven away from his eyes.

One day the king issued an edict that all the
leeches in the land, one and all, should try to cure
him of this evil, and those who did not succeed
should have their right hands cut off. A great
many skilled in the art hastened to fly from the
country, but a few came of their own accord, and
others were brought to the castle by the king’s
myrmidons.

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