The Princess and the Pea

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

Putri dan Pea

Dahulu kala ada seorang pangeran yang ingin menikahi seorang putri, tetapi ia harus menjadi seorang putri sejati. Ia berkelana di seluruh dunia untuk menemukan satu, tapi tak bisa dia mendapatkan apa yang ia inginkan. Ada putri cukup, tapi sulit untuk mengetahui apakah mereka yang nyata. Selalu ada sesuatu tentang mereka yang tidak sebagaimana mestinya. Jadi dia pulang lagi dan sedih, karena dia akan sangat menyukai untuk memiliki putri yang nyata.

One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

Suatu malam badai yang mengerikan datang; ada guruh dan kilat, dan hujan turun deras. Tiba-tiba terdengar ketukan di gerbang kota, dan raja tua pergi untuk membukanya.

It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.

Itu adalah seorang putri berdiri di luar sana di depan gerbang. Tapi, baik ramah! apa pemandangan hujan dan angin itu membuatnya terlihat. Air mengalir turun dari rambut dan pakaian; itu berlari ke dalam ujung sepatu dan keluar lagi di tumit. Namun dia berkata bahwa dia benar-benar putri.

Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.

Yah, kita akan segera mengetahui hal itu, pikir ratu tua. Tapi dia berkata apa-apa, masuk ke kamar tidur, mengambil semua alas tidur dari ranjang, dan meletakkan kacang di bagian bawah, kemudian ia mengambil dua puluh kasur dan meletakkannya di atas kacang polong, dan kemudian dua puluh Eider-down di atas tempat tidur kasur.

On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.

Sang putri ini harus berbohong sepanjang malam. Di pagi hari dia bertanya bagaimana dia tidur.

"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"

"Oh, sangat parah!" kata dia. "Saya sudah hampir tidak memejamkan mata sepanjang malam. Surga hanya mengetahui apa yang ada di tempat tidur, tapi aku sedang berbaring di sesuatu yang keras, sehingga saya hitam dan biru di seluruh tubuh saya. Sangat mengerikan!"

Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.

Sekarang mereka tahu bahwa ia adalah seorang putri sejati karena ia telah merasakan kacang polong kanan melalui dua puluh kasur dan kedua puluh Eider-turun tempat tidur.

Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.

Tidak ada tapi putri sejati bisa sama sensitif seperti itu.

So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

Jadi, sang pangeran membawanya untuk istrinya, karena sekarang ia tahu bahwa ia seorang putri sejati, dan kacang polong diletakkan di museum, di mana hal itu mungkin masih dapat dilihat, jika tidak ada yang mencurinya.

[Hans Christian Andersen]