1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,720 A long, long time ago... 2 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,120 ... so long that nobody remembers... 3 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,000 ... a king lived here in the castle. 4 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,080 And his daughter, lovely Princess Miamaja. 5 00:00:31,140 --> 00:00:36,720 Although it was a fairy king, they were not fairy rich. 6 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:41,160 The enemy demanded that the princess allow herself to be betrothed - 7 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,520 - with their prince before Christmas. Or there wouldn't be peace! 8 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,160 'No thanks', said Miamaja and locked herself in her chamber. 9 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,360 Everyone was sad and Christmas was approaching. 10 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:59,720 But then the king made a law, that abolished Chrstmas. 11 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,760 the night is dark, and far too long 12 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:16,840 but only lasts until sunrise 13 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:21,000 when the moon man closes his eyes 14 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:26,680 and the stars go out, then the night is over 15 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,480 good morning, the sun is rising 16 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,200 yawns, stretches his body 17 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,960 good morning, the sky is blue, what are you waiting for? 18 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,360 listen, the day it calls is bright and nice 19 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,640 it is fresh and clear, it's morning again 20 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,160 good morning, the night is over 21 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:57,800 the sun's lamp is lit, it shines brightly 22 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,980 hurry and get up, the day dawns, it's ready for use 23 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,560 it is here and now, it is morning again. 24 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:29,360 From today, Christmas is abolished and strictly prohibited! 25 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,000 The ban includes everything to do with Christmas: 26 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,680 Such as Christmas tree, Christmas porridge, Christmas lights, Christmas fruit, - 27 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:44,200 - mistletoe, crawling elves, Christmas presents, peber nuts, Christmas rooms... 28 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,360 As well as the very word 'Christmas' alone... 29 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,100 ... and in all contexts. 30 00:02:53,220 --> 00:03:00,080 This law is given in our castle, under royal hand and seal by his Majesty. 31 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,560 Leave it alone, you pimps! 32 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:08,680 I'll tell my uncle! 33 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,200 The two angels... down with them! 34 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,680 They are so adorable, what damage can they do? 35 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,680 It's about typical Christmas meadows... uh... 36 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,520 ... angels associated with the forbidden holiday. 37 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:26,920 That's why they must go. Down with them! 38 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,480 And the candy apples... same way with them! 39 00:03:30,940 --> 00:03:34,640 Here we have another... One of the forbidden ones. Down with it! 40 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,360 Sysmund. Away with the hearts up there! 41 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:43,080 It's heartbreaking. How will Christmas be this way? 42 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,160 That word is strictly forbidden. The next person who mentions it, - 43 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,800 - goes straight in the dungeon and can sit there until after... 44 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,120 ... New Year. 45 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,360 - They move and tear! - They peel and flake, criss and cross! 46 00:04:00,420 --> 00:04:02,560 That's how it was at home, in Montania. 47 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:08,000 We breathe a little Christmas spirit... We know we can do that. 48 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,360 Heh-heh! 49 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,920 What's bothering you! 50 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,680 The maiden has stood under the mistletoe, - 51 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:36,040 - in expectation of a kiss or two? - I'll give you a kiss! 52 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,040 - Yes, thanks as the one offering. 53 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,760 - It's an old custom, Sibbe. - Yes, Christmas can... 54 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:50,080 No bad words. Do you want to sit in the dungeon all... 55 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,000 ... all you know enough. 56 00:05:11,180 --> 00:05:16,040 The time has come and our patience has run out. 57 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,840 - Quiet, little Fimpe child. Dad's talking. - I'm not saying anything. 58 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,120 Quiet, Fimpe! 59 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,560 Uh, yes. 60 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,840 There comes a time in every pixie's life, - 61 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,440 - where he has to grab his beard and take the porridge spoon in the other hand. 62 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,320 This applies to us pixies in general, - 63 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:43,860 - but peculiar for a castle elf. And that time has come now. 64 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,880 We can live with the fact that people sometimes have to have a lazy Christmas. 65 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,720 It creates unemployment among us pixies, - 66 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,120 - but we have to accept that. 67 00:05:55,380 --> 00:06:00,840 But to abolish Christmas is to abolish us. 68 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,920 - And then we say NO. - YES. 69 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,560 What will you do, little Magnum? 70 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,920 If they have to use gold, they have to get gold. 71 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:17,880 - I open the old laboratory. - Is that true? 72 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,240 it's surely, it's true, december 73 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,240 the busiest month for pixies in particular 74 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,760 then we flutter around and fight 75 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,840 every step towards acidity and crooked toes 76 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,760 we say it openly, although always in secret 77 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,240 It's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas 78 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,920 it's surely, it's true, december 79 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,880 it's the day before the day before the day you know 80 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,440 and anyone who wants to add a damper 81 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,560 on our pleasure we inform him immediately 82 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:01,760 let's forget the world is fake and hollow 83 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,000 It's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas. 84 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,640 No, Fimpe child. Unauthorized children are prohibited. 85 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,640 - I will soon be 120! - Wait for the adults's turn. 86 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,760 - Uh, don't I get to do something? - Of course. 87 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,600 The two of us hang up all the Christmas decorations again. 88 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,840 Even on the exact spot it was. If we can find where it's been hanging. 89 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,960 We can do that, just as circa! 90 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,520 That was quite unheard of, uncle. A rough crowd! That's what it was... 91 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:46,840 Look at my French jersey, battered with egg... 92 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,760 Whew! I even sense they're not fresh. 93 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,560 Why didn't you take your blade and made a few wholes in them? 94 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,460 I should have dueled every one, but the thought didn't cross me. 95 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,100 But they were mean people, who doesn't own an honorable blade. 96 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,600 - One can't even leave the smallest of stuff to you! 97 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,360 Look who's coming! 98 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,320 - Who? Are they following me? - Nonsense! 99 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:16,400 The princess is going on a horse ride with one of her maidens. 100 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:21,000 Seems the young hunter must come along to protect the ladies. 101 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:26,360 He has no other weapon than a flute! 102 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:32,040 And my perms... They must be washed! 103 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:38,000 Why don't you ride with her? It's not long until... Christmas. 104 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,200 - You sent me to town yourself. - Now you have come home! 105 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,040 Without pants I can't ride with the ladies. 106 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:51,720 There's no other way than you must borrow my Flemish wadmels. 107 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,200 But spare them, better than your own! 108 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,000 It's time, she discovers she's got a chavalier. 109 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:11,400 If it matters, she kissed me in front of everyone when I found her ball frame. 110 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:16,800 - Discovered? You tripped over it! - I'm a man to do it again. 111 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:22,760 - Now turn your pants green. - Green? You don't use that anymore. 112 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:27,920 Nonsense! Wretched waffle-head! 113 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:54,120 - Shouldn't we return home? - Are you hungry, Sibbe? 114 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,280 Not at all. But what if we get lost and it becomes dark! 115 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:01,840 - Uh, what are we going to do then, Valentin? - Then we ride backwards, - 116 00:10:01,940 --> 00:10:04,840 in our own tracks. Then, we'll find the castle again. 117 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,960 What kind of track is that? Bear? 118 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,480 Fresh tracks, it can't be far off. 119 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,400 - It is probably a female that has become hungry. - Hungry? 120 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:35,080 - Let's go home! It's eating us up! - No, bears are very picky. 121 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,320 It goes after the fine mullet roots. 122 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:42,760 - Shall we get hold of it? - No, not for my death! I won't. 123 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,700 Not you, Sibbe, Hen-mom. Was me. You stay here and watch the horses. 124 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,400 - I don't dare. - Then ride home to the castle. 125 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:56,840 - I dare that even less! - One of the two you're comfortable with, I'm sure. 126 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,720 Miamaja! 127 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,360 Miamaja... 128 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,920 Uh, junker Juchs... I thought it was a bear. 129 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:04,360 Bear? Which bear? Are there bears here? 130 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:09,520 Yes, a giant one, the princess has gone to be eaten by it. 131 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,520 So I better... It was quite big? 132 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,160 I didn't see it. If I get to see it, I'll die of fright. 133 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,360 Die? You stay here, Rosie! 134 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:28,880 Remember to tell how I strutted straight to the danger. 135 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,040 Hello? 136 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,040 Is anyone here? 137 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,480 AAH! 138 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,960 Sibbe! Help! 139 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,160 Oh, thank heavens it is you. Now I can't do it anymore! 140 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,360 The horses seem to have multiplied, there's one too many. 141 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,360 - It's the junker's Rosie. - Where is the junker? 142 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:12,160 He wanted to kill the creature with his bare sable. 143 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,240 Sibbe! 144 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,840 Sibbe! 145 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,280 Sibbe! 146 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,880 Rosie? 147 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,320 Uncle, uncle... 148 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,280 Look here! 149 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,200 Heh-heh... 150 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,560 Oh, how funny it is. 151 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,920 The culprit must be found! Judging by all the Christmas brands... 152 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,880 - In all likelihood, it's... - The pixies! 153 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,840 - With all due respect, I don't think so... - I do. 154 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,520 - My nephew? - Junker Juchs it is not. 155 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:07,600 - He is in the forest on a bear hunt. - On bears... I see! 156 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,000 We could perhaps erase the pixies from the Finance Act. 157 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,000 - Very likely. 158 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,760 - Aren't pixies useful? - What good are they? 159 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,960 Against many thing. Against bad growth in the grain. 160 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,240 - It hasn't helped much this year. - That's what you say, Councilor! 161 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,240 - Three petty florins in grain money. 162 00:17:37,380 --> 00:17:41,760 This pixie monster has taken over. 163 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,560 - One could perhaps refrain from encouraging them. - Who encourages? 164 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,280 If you failed to spoil them everyday - 165 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,280 - with porridge and quail egg... 166 00:17:54,440 --> 00:18:00,840 Yes, you're right as always, that would make them stick their finger in the throat! 167 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,160 - In the ground! - Excuse me? 168 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,360 - It is in the ground that you stick your finger. - Yes, surely, exactly. 169 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:13,360 I decided it is now forbidden to put out any kind of food - 170 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,520 - for the little, cheeky pixies! 171 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,320 rune grass breaded in a snail trail 172 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:38,160 which can be seen by moonlight, where the snail lives 173 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:43,400 then find a wart root that is gone and you can make gold 174 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,800 the whole bag full 175 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:51,840 catch some grain moss, shine and take a sky sign 176 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,560 make a decoction in a corner of a region 177 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:01,320 then say these words with your gaze to the north 178 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:06,080 umma-gumma-sibbelom troll can be tipped about... 179 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,120 mix a little lirum-larum with an angel hair 180 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,880 let it stand and simmer as long as it takes 181 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:21,360 if you have an aurora borealis, you get the big thrill, then you can make gold 182 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,640 yes, the whole bag full 183 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,120 make an extract from an old wormham 184 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:33,920 and a tuft of wool from a ram sheep with lamb 185 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,760 then say these words with your gaze to the north 186 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,360 umma-gumma-sibbelom troll can be tipped about... 187 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:49,040 if you are looking for a prescription, one will be given 188 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,120 Alpha and Omega are the philosopher's stones 189 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:59,560 a lot has to be smoked, a lot has to be endured if you want to make gold 190 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,520 yes, the whole bag full 191 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:08,360 the alchemist's everyday life is dangerous 192 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:13,280 not all that glitters is the mere gold 193 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:18,520 say these words only with your gaze to the north 194 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:23,040 umma-gumma-sibbelom troll can be tipped about... 195 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,840 but the bag is empty 196 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,760 it's surely, it's true, december 197 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,800 it's the day before the day before the day you know 198 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,320 and anyone who wants to add a damper 199 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,320 on our pleasure we immediately inform him 200 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:48,560 let us forget that the world is false and hollow 201 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,880 it's surely, it's soon, 202 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,920 it' Christmas! 203 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:59,920 --- Subtitles by Essery. ---