Apparently, I am the last person in the United States to discover that Frozen is based on Hans Christian Andersen's "Snow Queen." Certainly the only person who is reading little other than books about snow, including Barbara Sjoholm's The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sapmi, which begins with her describing how fascinated she was as a child with that story. Well, there you have it. HCA, coming right up! As far as I remember, the only story I've read of his is "The Fir Tree," which I read in Norwegian ("Grantreet") for a class.
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