Among green and clear shallow waves
Under swaying seaweed, hidden deep in the bushes
Where loamy gravel goes down to the bottom of the lake
of the watery reigning empire
Doesn't cover his teeth, that are as green as his hat
Otherwise he is the same as humans, he also keeps calm on the shore
When he pulls up chains of algae from the water
to catch those, who don't take care
And not far from the pond, before a forested hill,
through impassable thicket, a path goes along.
Through the valley to the house of the old farmer
who there befriends the waterman.
For the first time the farmer was summoned
to the house under the sea, to arrive under water,
heard of the waterman's evil jokes,
of locked souls in those jars
Doesn't cover his teeth, that are as green as his hat
Otherwise he is the same as humans, he also keeps calm on the shore
When he pulls up chains of algae from the water
to catch those, who don't take care
The farmer is enraged over the capture of the soul,
dragged into the depths, with measured thread,
In his excessive rage, yet restrained grumbling,
there he goes, so he pulls himself up and away,
His goal is clear,
When he was on the shore again, this time in a gray dress,
to pull down the one who overtakes his green band,
There the farmer walks the path he knows
through the water chamber into the waterman's house
As he arrived in the cellar dungeon
overturned the jars with a hard kick
The souls now escaped to freedom
they climb up, yearning their peace
The waterman's rage became fierce,
but he released the souls from his custody
He swore dark revenge on the farmer
but watched over him augurally,
what fate had in mind for him,
what fate had first had in mind for him...
Doesn't cover his teeth, that are as green as his hat
Otherwise he is the same as humans, he also keeps calm on the shore
When he pulls up chains of algae from the water
to catch those, who don't take care
And not far from the pond, before a forested hill,
through impassable thicket, a path goes along.
Through the valley to the house of the old farmer
who there befriends the waterman.